Carl Elliott

Carl Elliott is the 2019 Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, where he is writing a book about whistleblowing in medical research on human subjects.

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  1. Why They Blow the Whistle

    The choice to blow the whistle or to stay silent is a choice about the sort of person you are and the one you want to be.

    Mark Felt, a.k.a. "Deep Throat"
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  2. The Drug Pushers

    As America turns its health-care system over to the market, pharmaceutical reps are wielding more and more influence—and the line between them and doctors is beginning to blur

  3. A New Way to Be Mad

    The phenomenon is not as rare as one might think: healthy people deliberately setting out to rid themselves of one or more of their limbs, with or without a surgeon's help. Why do pathologies sometimes arise as if from nowhere? Can the mere description of a condition make it contagious?