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Carl Elliott


 
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Recent articles by Carl Elliott:

August 20, 2008

In Defense of the Beta Blocker

Is this a performance drug that could actually increase the fairness of Olympic contests?

April 2006

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.

December 2000

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?