Archive for Ross Levatter
Ross Levatter is a physician in Arizona.
Not with a Bang But a Whimper
Social change can be revolutionary, sudden, and swift. More commonly it moves at a glacier pace. Yet glaciers work great change, and great damage, given enough time.
3Nov2009 | Ross Levatter | 2 comments | ContinuedPharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America
This review was commissioned over a year ago. I was looking forward to writing it. But then the depression began. Stress. A new job. A major move. A new marriage. I felt unfocused, obviously not in a condition to write a review of an important new book. Many psychiatrists would have no problem diagnosing my [...]
1Aug2002 | Ross Levatter | 0 comments | ContinuedWill You Name the Car Crash After Us?
Imagine the following dialog: SMITH (interested in auto insurance): I’m looking for some good auto insurance coverage. JONES (an auto insurance salesman): You’ve come to the right place. SMITH: Would your insurance cover me if I had an auto crash? JONES: Certainly our insurance covers auto accidents. SMITH (blushing): Well, I must admit I had [...]
1Oct2001 | Ross Levatter | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review ~ Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide by Thomas Szasz
Praeger • 1999 • 177 pages • $25.95 Thomas Szasz and his work need no introduction to a libertarian audience. A physician and psychiatrist, his love of liberty has always outweighed his love of medicine, and he has become one of the great opponents of the medicalized loss of liberty known as the Therapeutic State. [...]
1Jan2001 | Ross Levatter | 0 comments | Continued-
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