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Author Elliott, Carl, 1961-

Title White coat, black hat : adventures on the dark side of medicine / Carl Elliott.

Imprint Boston : Beacon Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  174.2951 El58w 2010    ---  Available
Description xvi, 213 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The guinea pigs -- The ghosts -- The detail men -- The thought leaders -- The flacks -- The ethicists.
Summary In this lively narrative, physician and moral philosopher Carl Elliott traces for the first time the evolutionary path of the new direction in health care, revealing the dangerous underbelly of the beast that has emerged--a beast that sacrifices old-style doctoring to fit the values of consumer capitalism.
Subject Medical ethics -- United States.
Pharmaceutical industry -- United States.
Medicine -- United States.
Drug Industry -- ethics.
Conflict of Interest.
Drug Evaluation -- ethics.
Professional Misconduct.
Pharmaceutical industry -- United States.
ISBN 9780807061428 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0807061425 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780807061442 (pbk.)
0807061441 (pbk.)

 
    
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