| Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream Contributor(s): Elliott, Carl (Author), Kramer, Peter D. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0393325652 ISBN-13: 9780393325652 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: In a brilliant diagnosis of our reactions to self-improvement technologies, Elliott asks questions that illuminate deep currents in the American character, such as: Why do we feel uneasy about self-improvement drugs, procedures, and therapies even while we embrace them? |
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| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Health Care Issues - Medical | Allied Health Services - General - Political Science |
| Dewey: 306.461 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 384 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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? |
Contributor Bio(s): Elliott, Carl: - Carl Elliott is a professor of bioethics and philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He lives in Minneapolis. |