Name: Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays
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Author: Szasz, Thomas
ISBN: 9780815608677

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Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Szasz

Publisher

Syracuse University Press

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

202

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.1 x 16.0 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN

0815608675

ISBN13

9780815608677

Synopsis "Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays "

This collection of impassioned essays, published between 1973 and 2006, chronicles Thomas Szasz's long campaign against the orthodoxies of pharmacracy, that is, the alliance of medicine and the state. From Diagnoses Are Not Diseases to The Existential Identity Thief, Fatal Temptation, and Killing as Therapy, the book delves into the complex evolution of medicalization, concluding with Pharmacracy: The New Despotism. In practice, society must draw a line between what counts as medical practice and what does not. Where it draws that line goes far in defining the kinds of laws its citizens live under, the kinds of medical care they receive, and the kinds of lives they are allowed to live.

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