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Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Carl Elliott
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-06-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"Elliott's absorbing account will make readers think again about the ways that science shapes our personal identities."—American Scientist Americans have alwa
Better Than Well?
Language: en
Pages: 143
Authors: Paul J. Fitzgerald
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-11 - Publisher: iUniverse

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Is it possible, through use of existing psychiatric medications or talk therapy, to treat someone who has become slightly to severely mentally ill, and not only
Better But Not Well
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Richard G. Frank
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-08 - Publisher: JHU Press

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The past half-century has been marked by major changes in the treatment of mental illness: important advances in understanding mental illnesses, increases in sp
Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Carl Elliott
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-06-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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An examination of "enhancement technologies" in America considers the pervasiveness of self-improvement drugs and procedures in spite of society's general uneas
White Coat, Black Hat
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Carl Elliott
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-13 - Publisher: Beacon Press

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By New Yorker and Atlantic writer Carl Elliott, a readable and even funny account of the serious business of medicine. A tongue-in-cheek account of the changes