Better Than Well American Medicine Meets the American Dream [Paperback]

Americans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of enhancement technologies. Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an occasional congressional hearing, and calls for self-reliance. Elliott's absorbing account will make readers think again about the ways that science shapes our personal identities.