Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

@inproceedings{Szasz2001PharmacracyMA,
  title={Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America},
  author={Thomas Stephen Szasz},
  year={2001}
}
Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: What Counts as Disease? Medicine: From Gnostic Healing to Empirical Science Scientific Medicine: Disease Clinical Medicine: Diagnosis Certifying Medicine: Disability Psychiatric Medicine: Disorder Philosophical Medicine: Critique or Ratification? Political Medicine: The Therapeutic State Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index 
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