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Author: Thomas Szasz
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0275971961
Category: Medical

Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

In recent decades, American medicine has become increasingly politicized and politics has become increasingly medicalized. Download Pharmacracy medical books for free.
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 of Get Pharmacracy our bestseller medical books.

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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 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 of

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