Pharmacracy : medicine and politics in America - Szasz, Thomas S. (Thomas Stephen), 1920-2012 (Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2003)
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.
Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Ethics, Medical -- United States; Health Policy -- United States; Medical ethics; Medical policy -- United States; Mental illness; Psychiatric ethics; Social Medicine -- History -- United States; Social control; Social medicine -- United States