Pharmacracy Medicine and Politics in America

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.

ISBN:	9780815607632
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Imprint:	Syracuse University Press
Published date:	30 Sep 2003
DEWEY:	362.10973
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	212
Weight:	369g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	17mm

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