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

by Carl Elliott

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324065508
• ISBN13: 9781324065500
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"