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Title: Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Carl Elliott, Peter D. Kramer ISBN: 0-393-05201-X Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book will get you thinking...
Comment: Elliott's book is a good read for those who have ever worried about America's growing obsession with medicine and technology. Even if you haven't ever wondered or thought about this part of American life, read the book anyway, because you should probably start. Elliott brings in a little of everything: the past, present and future, and scientific data as well as personal opinion, in order to ask the question, 'So where are we going with all this?' I think that this book can start a lot of us out on the right foot in trying to answer that question...
Rating: 5
Summary: Packed with philosophical whupass
Comment: A fascinating look enhancement technologies, from Ritalin to sex changes to voluntary amputations. Journalistic in style, but packs some serious philosophical ...
Rating: 4
Summary: Disturbing
Comment: A very interesting look at the various "enhancement" procedures and medications that have become so widely used in our society. One of the more disturbing trends is that of voluntary amputation. This apparently is sought by people with healthy limbs who feel uncomfortable with their bodies.For example,a man who felt that his legs were never really a true part of him,may choose to become a double amputee. Not for the faint of heart.
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Title: A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity (Reflective Bioethics) by Routledge, Carl Elliot ISBN: 0415919401 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine by Carl Elliott, John D. Lantos ISBN: 0822323699 Publisher: Duke University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness by Leon Kass ISBN: 0060734906 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Body of Compassion: Ethics, Medicine, and the Church (Radical Traditions) by Joel James Shuman, Joel Shuman ISBN: 0813367042 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics (Paperback)) by Erik Parens ISBN: 0878407804 Publisher: Georgetown University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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