Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

Thomas Szasz argues that 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 he calls pharmacracy, eroding personal freedom and dignity.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 09/01/2003
ISBN: 9780815607632
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.40h x 5.60w x 0.68d

Review Citations: Choice 03/01/2004 pg. 1327