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Medicalizing troublesome behaviors and social problems is tempting to voters and politicians alike: it panders to the people by promising to satisfy their needs for dependence on medical authority and offers easy self-aggrandizement to politicians as the dispensers of more and better health care. Thus, the people gain a convenient scapegoat, enabling them to avoid personal responsibility for their behavior. The government gains a rationale for endless and politically expedient wars against social problems defined as public health emergencies. The health care system gains prestige, funding, and bureaucratic power that only an alliance with the political system can provide.
However, Szasz warns, the creeping substitution of pharmacracy for democracy--private medical concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a political response--inexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity. Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America is a clear and convincing presentation of this hidden danger, all too often ignored in our health care debates and avoided in our political contests.
Medicalizing troublesome behaviors and social problems is tempting to voters and politicians alike: it panders to the people by promising to satisfy their needs for dependence on medical authority and offers easy self-aggrandizement to politicians as the dispensers of more and better health care. Thus, the people gain a convenient scapegoat, enabling them to avoid personal responsibility for their behavior. The government gains a rationale for endless and politically expedient wars against social problems defined as public health emergencies. The health care system gains prestige, funding, and bureaucratic power that only an alliance with the political system can provide.
However, Szasz warns, the creeping substitution of pharmacracy for democracy--private medical concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a political response--inexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity. Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America is a clear and convincing presentation of this hidden danger, all too often ignored in our health care debates and avoided in our political contests.
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: What Counts as 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2001 |
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Fachbereich: | Allgemeine Lexika |
Genre: | Importe, Medizin |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9780275971960 |
ISBN-10: | 0275971961 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Szasz, Thomas |
Hersteller: | Praeger |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 240 x 161 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | Thomas Szasz |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.04.2001 |
Gewicht: | 0,526 kg |
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: What Counts as 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2001 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Allgemeine Lexika |
Genre: | Importe, Medizin |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9780275971960 |
ISBN-10: | 0275971961 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Szasz, Thomas |
Hersteller: | Praeger |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 240 x 161 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | Thomas Szasz |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.04.2001 |
Gewicht: | 0,526 kg |