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