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White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
— published 2010 — 4 editions |
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Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream
by Carl Elliott (Goodreads Author), Peter D. Kramer — published 2003 — 2 editions |
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The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
by Carl Elliott (Goodreads Author) , Carl Elliott (Goodreads Author) — published 1999 — 2 editions |
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Prozac as a Way of Life
by Carl Elliott (Goodreads Author) , Tod Chambers — published 2004 — 2 editions |
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A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity
— published 1998 — 2 editions |
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The Rules of Insanity
— published 1996 — 3 editions |
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Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
by Carl Elliott (Goodreads Author) , James C. Edwards — published 2001 — 3 editions |
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location: Common Good Books, 165 Western Avenue, Saint Paul, MN, The United States description: As American medicine has transformed itself from profession to a business, it has come to resemble a seedy carnival sideshow, filled with scam artists, propagandists and pitchmen. In White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine, Carl Elliott takes us on a guided tour of medicine’s dark underbelly, from the cheap hustle to the Big Con. Head-turning stories and a rogue’s gallery of colorful characters become Elliott’s springboard for exploring larger ethical issues surrounding mone...more |
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“On Prozac, Sisyphus might well push the boulder back up the mountain with more enthusiasm and creativity. I do not want to deny the benefits of psychoactive medication. I just want to point out that Sisyphus is not a patient with a mental health problem. To see him as a patient with a mental health problem is to ignore certain larger aspects of his predicament connected to boulders, mountains, and eternity.”
― Carl Elliott
― Carl Elliott
“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.”
― Carl Elliott
― Carl Elliott
