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  • The Occasional Human Sacrifice

    Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No

    de Carl Elliott ...
    Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers.The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.Carl Elliott is a bioethicist at the University of Minnesota who was trained in medicine as ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • White Coat, Black Hat

    Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine

    de Carl Elliott ...
    Over the last twenty-five years, medicine and consumerism have been on an unchecked collision course, but, until now, the fallout from their impact has yet to be fully uncovered. A writer for The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, Carl Elliott ventures into the uncharted dark side of medicine, shining a light on the series of social and legislative changes that have sacrificed old-style ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Better Than Well

    American Medicine Meets the American Dream

    de Carl Elliott ...
    "Elliott's absorbing account will make readers think again about the ways that science shapes our personal identities."—American ScientistAmericans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of "enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an occasional ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • A Philosophical Disease

    Bioethics, Culture, and Identity

    de Carl Elliott ...
    Series series Reflective Bioethics
    Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and novelists such as Walker Percy, Paul Auster and Graham Greene, A**Philosophical Disease brings to the bioethical discussion larger philosophical questions about the sense and significance of human life.Carl Elliott moves beyond the standard menu of bioethical issues to explore the relationship of illness to identity, and of mental illness to spiritual ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Last Physician

    Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine

    Edición de Carl Elliott, John Lantos ...
    Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he contracted tuberculosis during his internship as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital and spent the next three years recovering, primarily in TB sanitoriums. This collection of essays explores not only Percy’s connections to medicine but also the underappreciated impact ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers

    Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics

    de James C. Edwards, Larry R. Churchill, James Lindemann Nelson, Grant Gillett ...
    Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that, in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled in this volume pay particular attention to Wittgenstein’s concern with the thick context of moral ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Prozac as a Way of Life

    Edición de Carl Elliott, Tod Chambers ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    Prozac and its chemical cousins, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft, are some of the most profitable and most widely used drugs in America. Their use in the treatment of a multitude of disorders — from generalized anxiety disorder and premenstrual syndrome to eating disorders and sexual compulsions — has provoked a whirlwind of public debate. Talk shows ask, Why is Prozac so popular? What, exactly, do ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • David and Goliath

    Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

    de Malcolm Gladwell ...
    Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Blank Slate

    The Modern Denial of Human Nature

    de Steven Pinker ...
    **A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --TimeFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize**Updated with a new afterwordOne of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Revenge of the Tipping Point

    Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

    de Malcolm Gladwell ...
    Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns in this New York Times bestseller that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.Why is Miami ... Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • And the Band Played On

    Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition

    de Randy Shilts ...
    Upon its first publication more than twenty years ago, And the Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting.An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Wounded Storyteller

    Body, Illness & Ethics

    de Arthur W. Frank ...
    Updated second edition: "A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about narratives of illness in new directions." — Sociology of Heath and IllnessSince it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. A collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from illness or disability, as well as a ... Leer más

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