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Occasional Human Sacrifice
Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
Av Carl Elliott
Häftad, 2025
201 kr
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Carl Elliott fought for an external inquiry into a psychiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulnerable patient lost his life. His experience frames the six stories in this book of medical research in which patients were deceived into participating in experimental …
Occasional Human Sacrifice
Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
Av Carl Elliott
Inbunden, 2024
297 kr
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For many years bioethicist Carl Elliott fought to expose a psychiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulnerable patient lost his life. Elliott’s efforts alienated friends and colleagues and the university stonewalled him and denied wrongdoing until a state …
Better Than Well
American Medicine Meets the American Dream
Av Carl Elliott
Häftad, 2004
346 kr
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Americans 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 congressional hearing, and calls for …
Philosophical Disease
Bioethics, Culture, and Identity
Av Carl Elliott
Inbunden, 1998
3063 kr
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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 …
Philosophical Disease
Bioethics, Culture, and Identity
Av Carl Elliott
Häftad, 1998
749 kr
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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 …
Rules of Insanity
Moral Responsibility and the Mentally Ill
Av Carl Elliott
Häftad, 1996
396 kr
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Addresses the question: Can we apply ordinary standards of responsibility to the mentally disordered offender?In The Rules of Insanity, Carl Elliott draws on philosophy and psychiatry to develop a conceptual framework for judging the moral responsibility of mentally ill offenders. Arguing that …
White Coat, Black Hat
Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
Av Carl Elliott
E-bok, 2010
280 kr
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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, …
Cost of Courage
The Journey of an American Congressman
Av Carl Elliott, Michael D'Orso
Häftad, 2001
408 kr
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This deeply moving story chronicles the tenacity and vision that carried Carl Elliott from the hills of northwest Alabama to eight distinguished terms in the United States House of Representatives. Born in a log cabin on a tenant farm in 1913, Carl Elliott worked his way through The University of …
Last Physician
Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Häftad, 1999
584 kr
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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 …
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers
Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
Av Carl Elliott
Häftad, 2001
343 kr
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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 …
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers
Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
Av Carl Elliott
E-bok, 2001
505 kr
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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 …
Last Physician
Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
E-bok, 1999
580 kr
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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 …
Philosophical Disease
Bioethics, Culture, and Identity
Av Carl Elliott
E-bok, 2014
883 kr
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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 …
Philosophical Disease
Bioethics, Culture, and Identity
Av Carl Elliott
E-bok, 2014
864 kr
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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 …
Prozac as a Way of Life
E-bok, 2016
339 kr
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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 …
Prozac as a Way of Life
E-bok, 2016
339 kr
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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 …
Last Physician
Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Inbunden, 1999
1423 kr
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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 …
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers
Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
Av Carl Elliott
Inbunden, 2001
1238 kr
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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 …
