The medicalization of everyday life, selected essays, Thomas Szasz
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The medicalization of everyday life, selected essays, Thomas Szasz
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
The medicalization of everyday life
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bibliography
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Thomas Szasz
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selected essays
Table Of Contents
Mental illness: a metaphorical disease -- Mental illness: the new phlogiston -- Might makes the metaphor -- Diagnosis: from description to prescription -- Diagnoses are not diseases -- The existential identity thief -- Defining disease -- The origin of psychiatry: coercion as cure -- Hysteria as language -- Routine neonatal circumcision: a medical ritual -- The fatal temptation: drug control and suicide -- Pedophilia therapy -- Psychiatry's war on criminal responsibility -- Killing as therapy: the case of Terri Schiavo -- Peter Singer's ethics of medicalization -- Pharmacracy: the new despotism
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