num_pages: 248
description: 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.
language: English
title: Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America
titlecomplete: Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America
genres: Psychology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 32
publisher: Syracuse University Press