Book: 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 pharmacracy--private personal concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a medical-political response--inexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity.
Details of Book: Pharmacracy: Medicine And Politics In America Book: Pharmacracy: Medicine And Politics In America
Author: Thomas Stephen Szasz
ISBN: 0815607636
ISBN-13: 9780815607632
, 978-0815607632
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Jul 2003
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Number of Pages: 248
Language: English