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Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

Autor Thomas Szasz
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 apr 2001 – vârsta până la 17 ani
In recent decades, American medicine has become increasingly politicized and politics has become increasingly medicalized. Behaviors previously seen as virtuous or wicked, wise or unwise are now dealt with as healthy or sick--unwanted behaviors to be controlled as if they were health issues. 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 the creation of a type of government social critic Thomas Szasz calls pharmacracy.Medicalizing troublesome behaviors and social problems is tempting to voters and politicians alike: it panders to the people by promising to satisfy their needs for dependence on medical authority and offers easy self-aggrandizement to politicians as the dispensers of more and better health care. Thus, the people gain a convenient scapegoat, enabling them to avoid personal responsibility for their behavior. The government gains a rationale for endless and politically expedient wars against social problems defined as public health emergencies. The health care system gains prestige, funding, and bureaucratic power that only an alliance with the political system can provide. However, Szasz warns, the creeping substitution of pharmacracy for democracy--private medical concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a political response--inexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity. Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America is a clear and convincing presentation of this hidden danger, all too often ignored in our health care debates and avoided in our political contests.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780275971960
ISBN-10: 0275971961
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

THOMAS SZASZ is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York. He is the author of the classic, The Myth of Mental Illness, as well as Our Right to Drugs (Praeger, 1992), The Meaning of Mind (Praeger, 1996), and Fatal Freedom, (Praeger, 1999).

Cuprins

PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: What Counts as Disease?Medicine: From Gnostic Healing to Empirical ScienceScientific Medicine: DiseaseClinical Medicine: DiagnosisCertifying Medicine: DisabilityPsychiatric Medicine: DisorderPhilosophical Medicine: Critique or Ratification?Political Medicine: The Therapeutic StateEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex