Webopac

← Back to Search

Holding Details

Barcode30053003779611
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No362.1 ELLI
Title The occasional human sacrifice : medical experimentation and the price of saying no / Carl Elliott.
Author Elliott, Carl, author.
CollectionAdult 300-399
Reserve Item

Copies

StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
 Paris-Bourbon30053003779611362.1 ELLI7/31/2024 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Elliott, Carl, author.
Title Statement The occasional human sacrifice : medical experimentation and the price of saying no / Carl Elliott.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]
Physical Description 355 pages ; 24 cm
Content Type text rdacontent
Media Type unmediated rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-339) and index.
Summary, Etc. "Carl Elliott is a bioethicist at the University of Minnesota who was trained in medicine as well as philosophy. For many years he fought to expose a psychiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulnerable patient lost his life. Elliott's efforts alienated friends and colleagues, and the university stonewalled him and denied wrongdoing until a state investigation finally vindicated his claims. This experience frames the six stories in this book of medical research in which patients allegedly gave their "consent" to participate in experimental programs they did not understand, many of which had astonishing and well-concealed mortality rates. Beginning with the public health worker who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and ending with the four surgeons who blew the whistle in 2016 on lethal synthetic trachea transplants, Elliott tells the stories of insiders who spoke out against such abuses, and often paid a terrible price for doing the right thing"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Science Experiments.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Human experimentation in medicine.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Medical sciences Research Moral and ethical aspects.

Book Reviews

Create Review