Carl Elliott
A native of Clover, South Carolina, Carl Elliott trained in medicine before completing a PhD in philosophy. He is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Elliott is the author or editor of eight books,including Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream (W.W. Norton, 2003) and White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine (Beacon, 2010). His most recent book on whistleblowing in medical research, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No, was published by W. W. Norton in 2024. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award, a resident fellowship at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, and the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History in the Kluge Center of the U.S. Library of Congress. In 2024, he was the Weatherhead Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. His articles have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, The New York Times and The New York Review of Books.