Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream

ISBN-13: 9780393325652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 384 str.

Carl Elliott; Peter D. Kramer

Opis

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?