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The Occasional Human Sacrifice

Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No

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The Occasional Human Sacrifice

By: Carl Elliott
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
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Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers.

The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.

Carl Elliott is a bioethicist at the University of Minnesota who was trained in medicine as well as philosophy. For many years he fought for an external inquiry into a psychiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulnerable patient lost his life. Elliott’s efforts alienated friends and colleagues. The university stonewalled him and denied wrongdoing until a state investigation finally vindicated his claims.

©2024 Carl Elliot (P)2024 Audible, Inc. Medicine & Health Care Industry

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A must read for every doctor and every patient

So dark, so funny. I laughed and cried. A clear headed and brutal view on why the health care system sucks by design, and why you should avoid it if you can.

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