White coat, black hat : adventures on the dark side of medicine / Carl Elliott.
Publication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c2010.Description: xvi, 213 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780807061428 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0807061425 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 174.2/951 22
- R724 .E385 2010
- 2010 K-841
- QV 736
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The guinea pigs -- The ghosts -- The detail men -- The thought leaders -- The flacks -- The ethicists.
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.
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