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Carl Elliott

Carl Elliott is a visiting associate professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, and the author of Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream.

Selected bibliography

  • Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Carl Elliott, foreword by Peter D. Kramer (2003)
  • Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine and Bioethics (2001)
  • A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture and Identity (1998)
  • The Rules of Insanity: Moral Responsibility and the Mentally Ill (1996)

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