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We invite you to join us for the talk in person.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Location: Registration required;<\/strong>\u00a0321MacNider Hall or Zoom<\/p>\n

Light refreshments will be served!\u00a0<\/strong>Kindly RSVP to help us organize better<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Carl Elliott, MD, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carl Elliott was originally trained in medicine before going into philosophy, and his most recent book,\u00a0The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No<\/em><\/a>, is about whistleblowing in medical research.\u00a0Carl grew up in Clover, South Carolina, where his father was a family doctor and his mother was a librarian. He attended Davidson College, the Medical University of South Carolina and Glasgow University in Scotland, training first in medicine and then in philosophy. After postdoctoral positions at the University of Chicago, the University of Otago in New Zealand and the University of Natal Medical School in South Africa, he joined the faculty at McGill University in Montreal. Elliott moved to the University of Minnesota in 1997 to join the Center for Bioethics. He is currently a professor in the Department of Philosophy.<\/p>\n

Carl 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. His writing has appeared in\u00a0The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Mother Jones<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The American Scholar.<\/em>\u00a0He has been a visiting faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Sydney, and the University of Otago, where he is an affiliate of the Bioethics Centre. He and his wife, Ina, have three children and live in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

For more information on Carl Elliott, please visit https:\/\/www.carl-elliott.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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