" And, he asked rhetorically, "is the youth and pleasure offered by the devil very far from the eternal youth and virility that we crave from modernmedicineandhealth science?
The new exhibit will be displayed alongside a number of modern artworks relating to human healthand wellbeing in the Wellcome Collection's Medicine Now gallery.
But Private Health is also an adaptation of the rapid advance of modernmedicine, which throws off ever more and better ways to diagnose and treat disease and ultimately extend lives.
Fortunately modernmedicine, for all its foibles, performs extraordinary feats every day and survival rates for all kinds of life-threatening health problems are better than ever.