The Dark Side of Medicine

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 1, 2010

Carl Elliott, professor at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, discusses the problems with medicine’s growing commercialism. In White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine, he looks at the social and legislative changes that have blurred the line between consumer capitalism and medicine.

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