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Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

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by Thomas Szasz
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Availability:In StockContributor:Thomas SzaszPublish date:2003-09-01Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815607632ISBN-10:815607636UPC:9780815607632Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:Health Policy, Health Care Delivery, EthicsSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCNP91VDR9
The modern penchant for transforming human problems into "diseases" and judicial sanctions into "treatments," replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to a type of government social critic Thomas Szasz calls "pharmacracy." He warns that the creeping substitution of democracy for pharmacracyprivate personal concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a medical-political responseinexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815607632ISBN-10:815607636UPC:9780815607632Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:Health Policy, Health Care Delivery, EthicsSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCNP91VDR9
Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. His books include The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement; The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience; and Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide, all published by Syracuse University Press.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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