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.

Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.40h x 5.60w x 0.68d
ISBN13: 9780815607632
ISBN10: 0815607636
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Health Policy
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
- Medical | Ethics