Böcker av Carl Elliott

For many years bioethicist Carl Elliott fought to expose a psychiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulnerable patient lost his life. Elliott's efforts alienated friends and colleagues and the university stonewalled him and denied wrongdoing until a state investigation finally vindicated his claims. This experience frames the six stories in this book of medical research in which patients allegedly gave their "consent" to participate in experimental programs they did not understand, many of which had astonishing and well-concealed mortality ratesBeginning with the public health worker who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and ending with the four surgeons who blew the whistle in 2016 on lethal synthetic trachea transplants, Elliott tells the stories of insiders who spoke out against such abuses and often paid a terrible price for doing the right thing.

"Money-Making" Mitch Moody has the best of both worlds. Not only is he one of Bridgeport, Connecticut's top street-numbers bookies, his father is one of the wealthiest men in America which says a lot for a Black man in 1943. Suddenly, both worlds collide when his uncle and business partner is brutally murdered during a numbers house robbery. After Mitch makes a decision to give up the street-life, his father gives him an opportunity to prove his worth by building an All "Colored" baseball team from scratch.Mitch's journey takes the team on a roller coaster ride against the world's best baseball players in the world, including both Major League and Negro League players. They must also deal with the extreme racism in the game that at the time, continued to ban players of color from playing in the Major Leagues. The name of the team soon became the BRIDGEPORT ELITE TIGERS. With the color barrier on the way to being broken, the Elite Tigers earn the respect from players of all races. That includes Negro League legends like Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson who have something they all want and are willing to play for.

This deeply moving story chronicles the tenacity and vision that carried Carl Elliott from the hills of northwest Alabama to eight distinguished terms in the United States House of Representatives. The life story of Carl Elliott is full of humour and wry wisdom and explains how he made his way across a stage as big as America.

Drawing on the work of writers such as Wittgenstein, Walker Percy, Paul Auster and Graham Greene, this book brings to the bioethical discussion larger philosophical questions about the sense and significance of human life.

"Elliott's absorbing account will make readers think again about the ways that science shapes our personal identities."-American Scientist