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The medicalization of everyday life : selected essays / Thomas Szasz.
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Title:The medicalization of everyday life : selected essays / Thomas Szasz.
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Author/Creator:Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012.
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Published/Created:Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: WM62 .S996 2007
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Call Number: WM62 .S996 2007
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Library of Congress Subjects:Mental illness--Classification--Social aspects.
Mental illness--Diagnosis--Social aspects.
Nosology--Social aspects.
Psychiatry--Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
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Medical Subjects: Psychiatry--ethics--United States--Collected Works.
Health Policy--United States--Collected Works.
Health Services Misuse--United States--Collected Works.
Psychotherapy--ethics--United States--Collected Works.
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Edition:1st ed.
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Description:xxvi, 202 p. ; 23 cm.
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Notes:Selection of essays presented or published between 1972 and 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
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ISBN:9780815608677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0815608675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Contents:Pt. 1. Demarcating Disease from Nondisease
1. Mental Illness: A Metaphorical Disease
2. Mental Illness: The New Phlogiston
3. Might Makes the Metaphor
4. Diagnosis: From Description to Prescription
5. Diagnoses Are Not Diseases
6. Existential Identity Thief
7. Defining Disease
Pt. 2. Disturbing Behavior and Medicine's Responses to It
8. Origin of Psychiatry: Coercion as Cure
9. Hysteria as Language
10. Routine Neonatal Circumcision: A Medical Ritual
11. Fatal Temptation: Drug Control and Suicide
12. Pedophilia Therapy
13. Psychiatry's War on Criminal Responsibility
14. Killing as Therapy: The Case of Terri Schiavo
15. Peter Singer's Ethics of Medicalization
16. Pharmacracy: The New Despotism.