The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays - Paperback
by Thomas Szasz
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815608677ISBN-10:815608675UPC:9780815608677Book Category:Medical, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Essays, Mental Health, PsychiatryBook Topic:PsychopharmacologySize:9.08 x 6.28 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.71Product ID:SCCCTTZ6V7
This collection of impassioned essays, published between 1973 and 2006, chronicles Thomas Szasz's long campaign against the orthodoxies of "pharmacracy," that is, the alliance of medicine and the state. From "Diagnoses Are Not Diseases" to "The Existential Identity Thief," "Fatal Temptation," and "Killing as Therapy," the book delves into the complex evolution of medicalization, concluding with "Pharmacracy: The New Despotism." In practice, society must draw a line between what counts as medical practice and what does not. Where it draws that line goes far in defining the kinds of laws its citizens live under, the kinds of medical care they receive, and the kinds of lives they are allowed to live.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815608677ISBN-10:815608675UPC:9780815608677Book Category:Medical, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Essays, Mental Health, PsychiatryBook Topic:PsychopharmacologySize:9.08 x 6.28 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.71Product ID:SCCCTTZ6V7
Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry, The Manufacture of Madness, Ideology and Insanity, Our Right to Drugs, The Myth of Psychotherapy, and Pharmacracy, all published by Syracuse University Press.
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