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Pharmacracy
ISBN/GTIN

Pharmacracy

Medicine and Politics in America
PaperbackPaperback
EUR19,50

Product 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 pharmacracy--private personal concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a medical-political response--inexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8156-0763-2
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (US)
Publishing date01/09/2003
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 142 mm, Height 239 mm, Thickness 17 mm
Weight363 g
Article no.21506918
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A3202674
Product groupBU691
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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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