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White coat, black hat : adventures on the dark side of medicine / Carl Elliott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elliott, Carl, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical ethics--United States.
- Medical ethics.
- United States.
- Pharmaceutical industry--United States.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Medicine--United States.
- Medicine.
- Drug Industry--ethics.
- Conflict of Interest.
- Drug Evaluation--ethics.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Professional Misconduct.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drug Industry--ethics.
- Conflict of Interest.
- Drug Evaluation--ethics.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Professional Misconduct.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 213 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2010]
- 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.
- Contents:
- The guinea pigs
- The ghosts
- The detail men
- The thought leaders
- The flacks
- The ethicists.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807061428
- 0807061425
- OCLC:
- 520440993
- Publisher Number:
- 99939847667
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