Better Than Well - American Medicine Meets the American Dream (Paperback, New Ed)

Americans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of "enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an occasional congressional hearing, and calls for self-reliance. In a brilliant diagnosis of our reactions to self-improvement technologies, Carl Elliott asks questions that illuminate deep currents in the American character: Why do we feel uneasy about these drugs, procedures, and therapies even while we embrace them? Where do we draw the line between self and society? Why do we seek self-realization in ways so heavily influenced by cultural conformity?

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2004
First published:	June 2004
Authors:	Carl Elliott
Introduction by:	Peter D. Kramer
Dimensions:	211 x 142 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	384
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-32565-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
LSN:	0-393-32565-2
Barcode:	9780393325652

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