Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Peter D. Kramer, Carl Elliott

Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream

Peter D. Kramer, Carl Elliott

384 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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,...

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