B Carl Elliott, M.D., Ph.D. - University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview

University of Minnesota Children's Hospital

University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview

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University of Minnesota
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B Carl Elliott, M.D., Ph.D.

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University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview Position(s)
Bioethics

Other Related Positions Currently Held
Professor, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, University of Minnesota

Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota

Sees Patients At
- University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview

Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Glasgow, Scotland

Medical School
Medical University of South Carolina

Research Interest(s)
Ethics of Enhancement Technologies
Research Ethics
The Philosophy of Psychiatry
The Work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Walker Percy

Selected Recent Publications
Books
Prozac as a Way of Life (editor, with Tod Chambers), University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream (W.W. Norton, 2003.)

Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine and Bioethics, (editor), Duke University Press, 2003.

Selected Articles
Ethics for Sale: For-profit ethical review, coming to a clinical trial near you. (with Trudo Lemmens). Slate, December 13, 2005

When Ethicists Have Conflicts of Interest , Dissent, Fall 2005

Should journals publish industry-funded bioethics articles? The Lancet, July 7, 2005.

Adventure! Comedy! Tragedy! Robots! How bioethicists learned to stop worrying and embrace their inner cyborgs, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume II, Number 1 (2005).

Pharma Goes to the Laundry: Public Relations and the Business of Medical Education, Hastings Center Report, September-October 2004.

A World of Our Own Making: Medical Enhancement and the Pursuit of Happiness, Dissent, Summer 2004.

Six Problems with Pharma-Funded Bioethics, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35, 2004.

The Cellular Apocalypse, The Believer, December 2003.

Not-So-Public Relations: How the drug industry is branding itself with bioethics, Slate, December 15, 2003.

Humanity 2.0, Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2003.

Costing an Arm and a Leg: The victims of a growing mental disorder are obsessed with amputation, Slate, July 10, 2003

American Bioscience Meets the American Dream, The American Prospect, vol. 14 no. 6, June 1, 2003.

Medicate Your Dissent, Speakeasy, May/June, 2003.

Logical Extreme: The next step for "reality" television, The American Prospect Online, May 13, 2003.

Adventures in the Gene Pool, Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2003.

Attitudes, Souls and Persons: Children with Severe Neurological Impairment(PDF), Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews 9: 16-20 (2003)

Identity and Genetic Ancestry Training, (with Paul Brodwin), British Medical Journal, 2002;325:1469-1471 ( 21 December 2002 ).