Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud
Tom Mueller
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Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud
Tom Mueller
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Mueller’s powerful but disheartening story of pervasive fraud and a general collapse of ethical behavior with only glimmers of hope from the bravery of whistleblowers is fully accessible to general readers and substantive enough for academic audiences; a must-read..
... deserves attention, though its shortcomings are substantial and occasionally exasperating.
In this hefty account, Mueller at times overdoes the descriptive details, but overall this is a fascinating history of the self-deputized referees who blow the whistle on illicit activities that put Americans’ freedom, money, health, and lives at risk..
Whether writing about drug companies that conceal unfavorable evidence, hospitals that engage in needless admissions, or nuclear facilities that waste public funds, the author engrossingly examines the ethics, mechanics, and reverberations of whistleblowing of all kinds, emphasizing how bitterly controversial the practice remains, posing a clash between group loyalty and individual conscience.
... exhaustive.