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Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012.
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Mental illness -- Classification -- Social aspects.
Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Social aspects.
Diseases -- Classification -- Social aspects.
Psychiatry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
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The medicalization o...
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The medicalization of everyday life : selected essays / Thomas Szasz.
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Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012.
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.
Subjects
Mental illness -- Classification -- Social aspects.
Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Social aspects.
Diseases -- Classification -- Social aspects.
Psychiatry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007022129.html
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9780815608677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0815608675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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xxvi, 202 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
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.
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