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The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
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Author:
Carl Elliott
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
May 14, 2024
Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers.
What The Reviewers Say
A bristling, courageous account of the moral struggles faced by critics in academic medicine.
[Elliott] seems inattentive to what should be important details of the case that was such a focus of his life: He gets the year of Markingson’s death wrong the first time he mentions it, and, in one of the book’s most startling passages, he displays a total lack of curiosity about the fact that Markingson’s mother donated her body to the University of Minnesota after her death.
Elliot’s exposé of unconscionable medical experiments pays tribute to the often wounded truth tellers who unmask these appalling practices..
Masterfully written.
