The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No

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Price
$29.99  $27.89
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
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Pages
368
Dimensions
6.2 X 9.1 X 1.3 inches | 1.19 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781324065500
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About the Author
Carl Elliott is the author of Better than Well and White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine.
Reviews
Fascinating....A disturbingly eye-opening read.-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"
A brilliant, harrowing book: part medical investigation, part memoir, part searing portrait of human behavior-- from systematic cruelty to near-obsessive moral codes. Carl Elliott has written a page-turner that manages to be both cynical and deeply compassionate. Urgent, unforgettable, and beautifully written.--Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement
Carl Elliott, one of America's most important and humane voices calling out medical corruption, goes deep in The Occasional Human Sacrifice. It's not only about research that amounts to human torture, or even taking on some of the marquee institutions in science. This important book explores how corruption in any realm germinates and why people blow the whistle despite the price they pay.--Brian Alexander, author of Glass House and The Hospital
What reads at first like a sly crash course on Nicomachean ethics quickly reveals itself as a rip snorting thriller about lone-wolf whistleblowers who've peeked inside America's elegant, well-funded human-trial labs to find a bloody, nearly Aztecan barbarism.--Jack Hitt, author of Off the Road and Bunch of Amateurs
Riveting.... Detailing the extreme pressures to stay loyal that whistleblowers face, Elliott paints a damning portrait of the medical community's workplace culture. Readers will be outraged and enthralled.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
A bristling, courageous account of the moral struggles faced by critics in academic medicine.--Ellen Ruppel Shell "Boston Globe"
Gut-wrenching but fascinating tales of human nature, conformity, and power.--Jenn White "NPR"
A thriller-like work of nonfiction.--Michael Glitz "Parade"
Meticulous and compelling.... I was unable to stop reading this astonishing book's riveting accounts of the paradoxes inherent in assuming the role, action, and devastating punishments accruing to medical whistleblower. I absorbed it in a single evening.--Harriet Washington, author of Medical Apartheid