"...[A] wide-ranging, intelligent, engaging, and irreverent set of
reflections on some deeply puzzling moral and cultural phenomena."
- John D. Arras, Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics,
University of Virgina
"As we read Carl Elliott, we become aware of the contexts in which
decisions arise: the state of medicine, the state of the nation, the
state of the soul. He does not sound like other Bioethicists; he
sounds like Walker Percy, with a distinctive Southern voice,
at once self-assured and ruminative. That voice transforms
Bioethics."
- Peter D. Kramer, author of Listening to Prozac and Should You Leave?
"Keeping close to the language of daily experience in a way that will
remind some of Oliver Sacks, Carl Elliott shows us the ways in which
medicine is losing its way at the end of the twentieth century. A
Philosophical Disease is a notable blend of honest doubt and humane
imagination."
- Stephen Toulmin, Henry R. Luce Professor, University of Southern
California