Thomas Szasz

Broschiertes Buch

Pharmacracy

Medicine and Politics in America

Beschreibung

Thomas Szasz argues that 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 he calls ""pharmacracy"", eroding personal freedom and dignity.

Autor

Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. His books include The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement; The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience; and Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide, all published by Syracuse University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 142mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780815607632
• ISBN-10: 0815607636
• Artikelnr.: 21154205