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008    070524s2007    nyu      b    001 0 eng   
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100 1  Szasz, Thomas Stephen,|d1920- 
245 14 The medicalization of everyday life :|bselected essays /
       |cThomas Szasz. 
250    1st ed. 
260    Syracuse, N.Y. :|bSyracuse University Press,|c2007. 
300    xxvi, 202 p. ;|c23 cm. 
500    "This book is a selection of essays presented or published
       between 1972 and 2006"--P. ix. 
505 0  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. 
650  0 Mental illness|xClassification|xSocial aspects. 
650  0 Mental illness|xDiagnosis|xSocial aspects. 
650  0 Diseases|xClassification|xSocial aspects. 
650  0 Psychiatry|xMoral and ethical aspects. 
650  0 Medical ethics.