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Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition
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In the ancient world, disease was a gnostic concept, concerned with "spiritual truth," not with empirical evidence.
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- Title Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America
- Author Thomas Szasz
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-04-30
- ISBN 9780275971960 / 0275971961
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.38 x 0.95 in (24.13 x 16.21 x 2.41 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Social medicine - United States, Medical ethics - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00064948
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.109
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- Booklist, 04/01/2001, Page 1435
- Publishers Weekly, 04/02/2001, Page 56
- Scitech Book News, 09/01/2001, Page 86
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Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Praeger Pub Text. New. 2001. Hardcover. 0275971961 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 240 pages -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction: What Counts as a Disease? * 1 Medicine: From Gnostic Healing to Empirical Science 1 * 2 Scientific Medicine: Disease 9 * 3 Clinical Medicine: Diagnosis 27 * 4 Certifying Medicine: Disability 57 * 5 Psychiatric Medicine: Disorder 77 * 6 Philosophical Medicine: Critique or Ratification? 111 * 7 Political Medicine: The Therapeutic Stare 127 * Epilogue 161. -- DESCRIPTION: -- In recent decades, American medicine has become increasingly politicized and politics has become increasingly medicalized. Behaviors previously seen as virtuous or wicked, wise or unwise are now dealt with as "healthy" or…
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