Oct. 6th, 2009

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Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Carl Elliott


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Bioethicist talks about "enhancement technologies," which apparently boils down to popular psychopharmacology with occasional side trips into artificial voices and body modification. Profoundly rambley and not what I was expecting, but enjoyable enough in an eclectic sort of way. Still, he didn't say anything about drugs I hadn't heard before, he just had more interesting stories about urban planning and the history of fugue states and *hand gestures* I don't even know what.

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