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By Carl Elliott. 357 pp. New York, W.W. Norton, 2003. $26.95. ISBN 0-393-05201-X.

This is a subtle, yet provocative book that picks up where Lauren Slater's excellent Prozac Diary (New York: Random House, 1998) and Peter D. Kramer's groundbreaking Listening to Prozac (New York: Viking, 1993) leave off. Like Slater, Elliott explores basic questions of selfhood in a society in which people increasingly turn to what he calls "enhancement technologies," such as drugs and cosmetic surgery, to improve their feelings about themselves. What does it mean for the definition of self, he wonders, when someone says, as many people happily taking antidepressants do, that she feels "more like herself" when she is taking . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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