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Author Szasz, Thomas Stephen, 1920-
Title The medicalization of everyday life : selected essays / Thomas Szasz.
Publication Info Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.
Edition 1st ed.


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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
0815608675
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Author Szasz, Thomas Stephen, 1920-
Subject Mental illness -- Classification -- Social aspects.
Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Social aspects.
Diseases -- Classification -- Social aspects.
Psychiatry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
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
0815608675
Author Szasz, Thomas Stephen, 1920-
Subject Mental illness -- Classification -- Social aspects.
Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Social aspects.
Diseases -- Classification -- Social aspects.
Psychiatry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  RC455.2.C4 S93  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
1 copy being processed for BJL.

Subject Mental illness -- Classification -- Social aspects.
Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Social aspects.
Diseases -- Classification -- Social aspects.
Psychiatry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
Descript xxvi, 202 p. ; 23 cm.
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
0815608675

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