The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays [Large Print]

by Thomas Szasz

Book Overview

This collection of impassioned essays, published between 1973 and 2006, chronicles Thomas Szasz's long campaign against the orthodoxies of "pharmacracy," that is, the alliance of medicine and the state. From "Diagnoses Are Not Diseases" to "The Existential Identity Thief," "Fatal Temptation," and "Killing as Therapy," the book delves into the complex evolution of medicalization, concluding with "Pharmacracy: The New Despotism." In practice, society...

• Format: Paperback
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815608675
• ISBN13: 9780815608677
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"