{"product_id":"pharmacracy-medicine-and-politics-in-america-paperback","title":"Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Szasz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Szasz\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of psychiatry at State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Manufacture of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement; The \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFatal Freedom: The Ethics \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand Politics of Suicide, \u003c\/i\u003eall published by Syracuse University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9.4 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52239349514514,"sku":"9780815607632","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/bGV1Ty9pUm5XQ0k0b3Vqd1dDaXZyUT09.webp?v=1777876013","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/pharmacracy-medicine-and-politics-in-america-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}