{"product_id":"the-medicalization-of-everyday-life-selected-essays-paperback","title":"The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays - 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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of impassioned essays, published between 1973 and 2006, chronicles Thomas Szasz's long campaign against the orthodoxies of \"pharmacracy,\" that is, the alliance of medicine and the state. From \"Diagnoses Are Not Diseases\" to \"The Existential Identity Thief,\" \"Fatal Temptation,\" and \"Killing as Therapy,\" the book delves into the complex evolution of medicalization, concluding with \"Pharmacracy: The New Despotism.\" In practice, society must draw a line between what counts as medical practice and what does not. Where it draws that line goes far in defining the kinds of laws its citizens live under, the kinds of medical care they receive, and the kinds of lives they are allowed to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Szasz\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York. His books include \u003ci\u003eLaw, Liberty, and Psychiatry, The Manufacture of Madness, Ideology \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand Insanity, Our Right to Drugs, The Myth of Psychotherapy, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePharmacracy, \u003c\/i\u003e all published by Syracuse University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9.08 x 6.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 08, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Print:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52239351021842,"sku":"9780815608677","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/emZqRE5jNklnRHJWNHR2eDZpeFNQZz09.webp?v=1777876020","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/the-medicalization-of-everyday-life-selected-essays-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}