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 pharmacracyprivate personal concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a medical-political responseinexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity.
Author: Thomas Szasz
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780815607632
Language: English
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