Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream

By Ross Upshur. British medical journal, 2003

299 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health, Philosophy

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Saskia K. Nagel
2. J. Slaby
3. S. Choudhury
4. H. Keane

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. H. Keane

In Philosophy

1. J. Slaby
2. H. Keane

Citations in the corpus

• Critical Neuroscience: Linking Neuroscience and Society through Critical Practice (2009, background): “Antidepressants like Prozac are increasingly used, even in moderate cases of low mood (Kramer, 1993)—people seek to feel ‘better than well’ in their pursuit of happiness (Elliott, 2003; Harmer et al., 2004; C R I T I C A L N E U R O S C I E N C E j j 69 Healy, 2004).”
• Intoxication, harm and pleasure: an analysis of the Australian National Alcohol Strategy (2009, background): “The practice of enhancing one’s existence, happiness and productivity through the use of technology, including pharmacological technologies, has become an element of the good life and contributes to the normalisation of psychoactive drug use (Elliott 2003).”