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Better Than Well : American Medicine Meets the American Dream

by Carl Elliott

2020-04-20 03:05:35

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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, a... Read more
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? Less

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File size8.5x5.4x1inches
Print pages384
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Publication date June 17, 2004
Languageeng
ISBN9780393325652
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