9780275971960

Book Description: Praeger Trade, 2001. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. HARDCOVER, BRAND NEW COPY, Perfect Shape, No Black Remainder Mark, shipped with USPS tracking and delivery confirmatioshipped with USPS tracking and delivery confirmation, International Orders shipped Global Priority Air Mail, All orders handled with care and shipped promptly in secure packaging, we ship Mon-Sat and send shipment confirmation emails. Our customer service is friendly, we answer emails fast, accept returns and work hard to deliver 100% Customer Satisfaction!. Bookseller Inventory # 0706241228

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Book Description: Praeger Trade, 2001. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. HARDCOVER, BRAND NEW COPY, Perfect Shape, No Black Remainder Mark, shipped with USPS tracking and delivery confirmatioshipped with USPS tracking and delivery confirmation, International Orders shipped Global Priority Air Mail, All orders handled with care and shipped promptly in secure packaging, we ship Mon-Sat and send shipment confirmation emails. Our customer service is friendly, we answer emails fast, accept returns and work hard to deliver 100% Customer Satisfaction!. Bookseller Inventory # 9008552

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Book Description: ABC-CLIO, United States, 2001. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 234 x 156 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. This work highlights how the introduction of third-party payers into medicine has altered the relationship between doctor and patient. In a theocracy, human problems are perceived as religious in nature and susceptible to religious remedies. This book illustrates how in a pharmacracy people perceive human problems as medical in nature and this susceptible to medical remedies. The term "pharmacratic controls" refers to social sanctions exercised by a bureaucratic health-care system, enforced by health-care personnel and exemplified by the wars on diseased and drugs. These pharmacratic controls result in health policies that undermine individual responsibility and liberty by forming an alliance between medicine and the state. This leads to a system that defines abnormal behaviours as diseases and punishments as treatments. Thomas Szasz explains why, despite tremendous scientific advances in medicine, patients are increasingly dissatisfied with the medical care they receive, and doctors with the way they have to practice medicine.In addition to medical policy makers and health-care professionals, this book should be of interest to anyone trying to understand the ins and outs of the US medical system. Bookseller Inventory # FLT9780275971960

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Book Description: Praeger Pub Text, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A., 2001. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 240 pages -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction: What Counts as a Disease? * 1 Medicine: From Gnostic Healing to Empirical Science 1 * 2 Scientific Medicine: Disease 9 * 3 Clinical Medicine: Diagnosis 27 * 4 Certifying Medicine: Disability 57 * 5 Psychiatric Medicine: Disorder 77 * 6 Philosophical Medicine: Critique or Ratification? 111 * 7 Political Medicine: The Therapeutic Stare 127 * Epilogue 161. -- DESCRIPTION: -- In recent decades, American medicine has become increasingly politicized and politics has become increasingly medicalized. 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 public 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 a type of government social critic Thomas Szasz calls "pharmacracy." This insidious political development is eroding our personal liberties while distorting our approach to both health care and politics. -- Publishers Weekly: "Nearly 40 years after psychiatrist Karl Menninger called the medical profession on the carpet for misnaming medical conditions so that various forms of treatment could be justified and, 24 years later, Susan Sontag declared that "illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust," noted and controversial psychiatrist Szasz (Fatal Freedom), as lively and contentious as ever, pursues similar lines of thought, examining the medicalization of politics and the politics of medicine in contemporary America. At the base of what he calls our modern "pharmacracy" a state where "all sorts of human problems are transformed into diseases and the rule of law extends into the rule of medicine" stands a virulent misunderstanding of disease, in the "literal" or scientific sense. It is, he argues in accord with the theories of 19th-century pathologist Rudolf Virchow, very simply an injury or abnormality in the cells, tissues or organs of the body. Yet, he maintains, the medical profession and politicians have today named as diseases a wide range of human behaviors, from alcoholism and obesity to mental illness and infertility. Moreover, some of these metaphorical diseases are elevated to public health problems subject to government intervention; thus, in Szasz's view, America has created a contemporary fascist health state in which its campaigns aimed at the eradication of smoking and obesity focus not on the responsibility of individuals to quit smoking or to lose weight but on the promise that well-funded research agendas will solve the problem. Plenty of health-care professionals and politicians will disagree with Szasz's definition of disease and his condemnation of the modern "pharmacracy," but no reader can put down this book without having been disturbed, provoked and challenged to see the American medical profession in a new light.". Bookseller Inventory # 34128

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