Descript |
xxvi, 202 p. ; 23 cm. |
Edition |
1st ed. |
Note |
"This book is a selection of essays presented or published between 1972 and 2006"--P. ix. |
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. |
ISBN |
9780815608677 |
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0815608675 |
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