Pharmacracy : medicine and politics in America / Thomas Szasz.

  • Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012.
Date:
2001
  • Books

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Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, 2001.

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xxiv, 212 pages ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-201) and index.

Contents

Introduction: What counts as a disease? -- Medicine: from gnostic healing to empirical science -- Scientific medicine: disease -- Clinical medicine: diagnosis -- Certifying medicine: disability -- Psychiatric medicine: disorder -- Philosophical medicine: critique or ratification? -- Political medicine: the therapeutic state -- Epilogue.

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    History of Medicine
    CP.6
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  • 0275971961