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Fussell, Samuel Fussell. 1992.Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder. New York: Avon.
Haiken, Elizabeth. 2000.Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Parens, Eric, ed. 1996.Enhancing Human Traits. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Smith, Mickey C. 1985.Small Comfort: A History of the Minor Tranquilizers. New York: Praeger.
Taylor, Charles. 1989.Sources of the Self. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Walzer, Michael. 1994.Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press.
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Carl Elliott teaches at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota and was a visiting associate professor in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 2003–04. This article is adapted fromBetter Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream (W. W. Norton, 2004).
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Elliott, C. Enhancement technologies and identity ethics. Soc 41, 25–31 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02688214
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