Join Countway Library and HMS Center for Bioethics for an author talk with Carl Elliott, MD, PhD about his book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice

• Books will be sold (by Porter Square Books) and signed at event!
• Registration required

About the Book

The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine. Beginning with the public health worker who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and ending with the four physicians who in 2016 blew the whistle on lethal synthetic trachea transplants at the Karolinska Institute, Elliott tells the extraordinary stories of insiders who spoke out against such abuses, and often paid a terrible price for doing the right thing.

About the Author

Carl Elliott MD PhD is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and an affiliate faculty member of the University of Otago Bioethics Centre in New Zealand. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and The American Scholar. Elliott is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award, the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress, a resident fellowship at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, and a Weatherhead Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. He has also been a visiting faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.