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Center for Bioethics

My research interests are mainly in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine, especially psychiatry. For the past several years I have been writing about the social and philosophical issues surrounding biomedical technologies used not just to cure illness and disability, but to improve human capacities and alter human identity. I have also written on Wittgenstein, the physician-novelist Walker Percy, and ethical issues surrounding pharmaceutical marketing.

Selected Publications

Prozac as a Way of Life (co-editor), Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream, New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Bioethics and Medicine (editor) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.

A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture and Identity, New York: Routledge, 1999.

The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine (co-editor), Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.