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

Title
White coat, black hat : adventures on the dark side of medicine / Carl Elliott.
Author
Elliott, Carl, 1961-
Publication
Boston : Beacon Press, c2010.

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Description
xvi, 213 p.; 24 cm.
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
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Professional Misconduct
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-194) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The guinea pigs -- The ghosts -- The detail men -- The thought leaders -- The flacks -- The ethicists.
ISBN
  • 9780807061428 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0807061425 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010006119
OCLC
520440993
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library