Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry

By Thomas Szasz

Book Overview

Originally called mad-doctoring, psychiatry began in the seventeenth century with the establishing of madhouses and the legal empowering of doctors to incarcerate persons denominated as insane This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765801450
• ISBN13: 9780765801456
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"