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Pharmacracy : Medicine and Politics in America by Thomas Szasz (2003, Trade Paperback)

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Pharmacracy : Medicine and Politics in America, Paperback by Szasz, Thomas Stephen, ISBN 0815607636, ISBN-13 9780815607632, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The modern penchant for transforming human problems into "diseases" and judicial sanctions into "treatments," replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to a type of government social critic Thomas Szasz calls "pharmacracy." He warns that the creeping substitution of democracy for pharmacracyprivate personal concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a medical-political responseinexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity.