Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

Author/Contributor(s):	Szasz, Thomas
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Date:	09/01/2003
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.