The Medicalization of everyday life : selected essays
Thomas Szasz
Bok Engelsk 2007
| Omfang | xxvi, 202 sider
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| Opplysninger | "Selection of essays presented or published between 1972 and 2006." -- kolofonen. - 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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| Emner | Medical ethics.
Medicalization. Mental illness - Classification - Social aspects. Mental illness - Diagnosis - Social aspects. Vis mer... Psychiatry - Moral and ethical aspects.
Helsepolitikk : (NO-TrBIB)HUME21066 Legemidler : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03777 Medisiner : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03777 Psykiske lidelser : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03931 Psychiatry - ethics - United States Health Policy - United States Health Services Misuse - United States Psychotherapy - ethics - United States |
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| ISBN | 0815608675. - 9780815608677
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