[Get free] Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays
❀ Thomas Szasz ❀
| #396612 in Books | Thomas Szasz | 2007-10-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.08 x.64 x6.28l,.71 | File Name: 0815608675 | 202 pages | The Medicalization of Everyday Life Selected Essays
||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Autonomy in small bits|By Psychic Octopus|The career of Thomas Szasz spans decades of teaching, research and activism against the coercive structures of psychiatry, and its alliance with the state, its interference in criminal law, and its relation with chemical laboratories and insurers ("Big Pharma" in less formal parlance). In this selection of essays spanning from the 1970|From Publishers Weekly|Psychiatrist Szasz, professor emeritus at SUNY Upstate Medical University, continues his iconoclastic career in this short book of essays (previously published in journals) spanning much of his professional life. He details how the medica
Defining "medicalization" as the perception of nonmedical conditions as medical problems and nondiseases as diseases, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to exposing the dangers of "medicalizing" the conditions of some who simply refuse to conform to society's expectations. Szasz argues that modern psychiatry's tireless ambition to explain the human condition has led to the treatment of life's difficulties and oddities as clinical illnesses rather than as human...
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