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Pharmacracy Medicine and Politics in America
by Szasz, Thomas Stephen
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- ISBN-13: 9780815607632
- ISBN: 0815607636
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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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.Szasz, Thomas Stephen is the author of 'Pharmacracy Medicine and Politics in America' with ISBN 9780815607632 and ISBN 0815607636.
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