Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

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01 Sep, 2003

The modern penchant for transforming human problems into "diseases" and judicial sanctions into "treatments," replacing the rule of law with the rule of me...

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ISBN-10:

0815607636

ISBN-13:

9780815607632

Publisher

Syracuse University Press

Dimensions

9.10 X 6.00 X 0.70 inches

Language

English

Description

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.

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ISBN-10

:0815607636

ISBN-13

:9780815607632

Publisher

:Syracuse University Press

Publication date

: 01 Sep, 2003

About the Author

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.

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Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

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