Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America by Szasz, Thomas

Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780815607632)

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Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America by Szasz, Thomas

Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

$19.95
Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America by Szasz, Thomas

Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Thomas Szasz
ISBN-10: 0815607636
ISBN-13: 9780815607632
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2004 pg. 1327
By Thomas Szasz
By Thomas Szasz
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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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