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- catalog abstract "The growing use of pseudo-medical arguments to justify certain policies in the name of "public health" results in what critic Thomas Szasz terms pharmacracy, an insidious tendency that is eroding our personal liberties while distorting our approach to both health care & politics. Annotation. Exposes and examines the hidden threats to liberty and the rule of law posed by "pharmacracy"--The emerging alliance of the government and the health-care system. Annotation. Szasz (emeritus, psychiatry, State University of New York Upstate Medical University) explores the development of a "pharmacracy" as the natural outgrowth of the tendency to medicalize social problems, deviance, and disruptive behavior. He describes the relationships between medical and political authority, between increased government control and increased funding for health care, and between the medicalization of individual behavior and the avoidance of personal responsibility.".
- catalog contributor b12079101.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-201) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: What counts as a disease? -- Medicine: from gnostic healing to empirical science -- Scientific medicine: disease -- Clinical medicine: diagnosis -- Certifying medicine: disability -- Psychiatric medicine: disorder -- Philosophical medicine: critique or ratification? -- Political medicine: the therapeutic state -- Epilogue.".
- catalog description "The growing use of pseudo-medical arguments to justify certain policies in the name of "public health" results in what critic Thomas Szasz terms pharmacracy, an insidious tendency that is eroding our personal liberties while distorting our approach to both health care & politics. Annotation. Exposes and examines the hidden threats to liberty and the rule of law posed by "pharmacracy"--The emerging alliance of the government and the health-care system. Annotation. Szasz (emeritus, psychiatry, State University of New York Upstate Medical University) explores the development of a "pharmacracy" as the natural outgrowth of the tendency to medicalize social problems, deviance, and disruptive behavior. He describes the relationships between medical and political authority, between increased government control and increased funding for health care, and between the medicalization of individual behavior and the avoidance of personal responsibility.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 212 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0275971961 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Westport, Conn. : Praeger,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "2001 G-630".
- catalog subject "362.1/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Medical United States.".
- catalog subject "Health Policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Medical care Political aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Medical ethics United States.".
- catalog subject "RA418.3.U6 S936 2001".
- catalog subject "Social Medicine United States History.".
- catalog subject "Social medicine United States Miscellanea.".
- catalog subject "WA 525 S9988p 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: What counts as a disease? -- Medicine: from gnostic healing to empirical science -- Scientific medicine: disease -- Clinical medicine: diagnosis -- Certifying medicine: disability -- Psychiatric medicine: disorder -- Philosophical medicine: critique or ratification? -- Political medicine: the therapeutic state -- Epilogue.".
- catalog title "Pharmacracy : medicine and politics in America / Thomas Szasz.".
- catalog type "Miscellanea. fast".
- catalog type "text".