| Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America Contributor(s): Szasz, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815607636 ISBN-13: 9780815607632 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Policy - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Medical | Ethics |
| Dewey: 362.109 |
| LCCN: 2003008945 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.80 lbs) 248 pages |
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| Publisher 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. |