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Pharmacracy : Medicine and Politics in America by Thomas Szasz (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSyracuse University Press
ISBN-100815607636
ISBN-139780815607632
eBay Product ID (ePID)2541076
Product Key Features
Number of Pages248 Pages
Publication NamePharmacracy : Medicine and Politics in America
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
SubjectEthics, Health Care Delivery, Sociology / General, Psychopathology / General, Health Policy, Disease & Health Issues
TypeTextbook
AuthorThomas Szasz
Subject AreaSocial Science, Psychology, Medical
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-008945
ReviewsThe idiom, imagery, and technology of medicine have been taken over by politics and society, says longtime dissident psychiatrist Szasz, and that has essentially broadened and weakened the concept of disease. Bureaucrats have supplanted pathologists, and bioethicists have obfuscated the scientific approach. Szasz emphasizes the resultant dangers, especially those stemming from the forceful social influence of psychiatry and the burgeoning domain of mental illness. The current biopsychosocial image of illness is a regression, he says, not an advance. Mental illnesses in general don't have solid physical causes and therefore should not be seen as scientifically diagnosable, researchable, and treatable conditions. But the powerful and often insidious propaganda of drug companies, mental illness proponents, politicians, and recent surgeons general routinely infects legislation, the public press, and even the major medical journals. Szasz's quotable style, thoughtful delving beneath the surface, and often striking analogies should once again stimulate vigorous discussion in several fields., Plenty of health-care professionals and politicians will disagree with Szasz's definition of disease and his condemnation of the modern 'pharmacracy,' but no reader can put down this book without having been disturbed, provoked and challenged to see the American medical profession in a new light.
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal362.1/0973
SynopsisThe 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., Thomas Szasz argues that 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 he calls ""pharmacracy"", eroding personal freedom and dignity.
LC Classification NumberRA418.3.U6S936 2003
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