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Public Lecture Title: The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
Carl Elliott is a a professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota and
affiliate faculty at the Bioethics Centre, University of Otago (New Zealand).
Carl Elliott's most recent book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No, is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.
Beginning with the public health worker who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and ending with the four physicians who in 2016 blew the whistle on lethal synthetic trachea transplants at the Karolinska Institute, Elliott tells the extraordinary stories of insiders who spoke out against such abuses, and often paid a terrible price for doing the right thing.
Public Lecture Title: The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
Carl Elliott is a a professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota and
affiliate faculty at the Bioethics Centre, University of Otago (New Zealand).
Carl Elliott's most recent book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No, is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.
Beginning with the public health worker who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and ending with the four physicians who in 2016 blew the whistle on lethal synthetic trachea transplants at the Karolinska Institute, Elliott tells the extraordinary stories of insiders who spoke out against such abuses, and often paid a terrible price for doing the right thing.
