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Better Than Well Carl Elliott

Better Than Well By Carl Elliott

Better Than Well by Carl Elliott


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Elliott's absorbing account will make readers think again about the ways that science shapes our personal identities.-American Scientist

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Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Carl Elliott

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 self-reliance.

In a brilliant diagnosis of our reactions to self-improvement technologies, Carl Elliott asks questions that illuminate deep currents in the American character: Why do we feel uneasy about these drugs, procedures, and therapies even while we embrace them? Where do we draw the line between self and society? Why do we seek self-realization in ways so heavily influenced by cultural conformity?

Better Than Well Reviews

A superbly crafted book. An absorbing read that probes our foibles and uncertainties with gentleness, wisdom, and humor. Elliott grips the reader's attention all the way. An impressive achievement.

About Carl Elliott

Carl Elliott is a professor of bioethics and philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He lives in Minneapolis.

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CIN0393325652A
9780393325652
0393325652
Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Carl Elliott
Used - Well Read
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
2004-07-13
384
N/A
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