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Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream
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?
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?
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Jun 1st, 2004
- Pages: 384
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.40in - 1.00in - 1.05lb
- EAN: 9780393325652
- Categories: • Health Care Issues• Allied Health Services - General• General
About the Author
Elliott, Carl: - Carl Elliott is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award, he is the author of Better Than Well and White Coat, Black Hat. He lives in Minnesota.
Praise for this book
"Elliott grips the reader's attention all the way."
A superbly crafted book.
An impressive achievement.
Elliott grips the reader's attention all the way.
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. "