9780275971960
Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America
Thomas Stephen Szasz; Thomas Szasz
ISBN 13: 9780275971960
Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
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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.
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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 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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