Pharmacracy

Pharmacracy
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 0815607636
ISBN-13 : 9780815607632
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Download or read book Pharmacracy written by Thomas Szasz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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