> thats an interesting point too, isnt it? i think the biologist lewontin
> has a piece where he traces lots of advances in public health to such
> thing as sanitation and sewage systems rather than advances in western
> medicine. but do you not consider better sanitation a sort of
> technological advance and that leads us, from what i read in doug's
> pragmatic reasoning, to accept those technologies that, at least at
> first look, are beneficial?
If I'm not mistaken, the scientific community sees imropoved sanitation as being one of the most important medical advances of the 20th century.
Yes, better sanitation is a technological advance. It's also a positive advance of scientific knowledge, which is based on the germ theory of disease. It's not like we would lose this scientific knowledge if we significantly changed our living patterns.
But then, improving sanitation can be a low tech thing that is feasible in a world without high tech capitalism.
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