Suicide Prohibition
the shame of medicine
$50.23
- Hardcover
148 pages
- Release Date
12 October 2011
Summary
In Western thought, suicide has evolved from sin to sin-and-crime, to crime, to mental illness, and to semilegal act. A legal act is one we are free to think and speak about and plan and perform, without penalty by agents of the state.While dying voluntarily is ostensibly legal, suicide attempts and even suicidal thoughts are routinely punished by incarceration in a psychiatric institution. Although many people believe the prevention of suicide is one of the duties the modern state owes its c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780815609902 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0815609906 |
| Author: | Thomas Szasz |
| Publisher: | Syracuse University Press |
| Imprint: | Syracuse University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 148 |
| Release Date: | 12 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 17mm |
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[Thomas Szasz] is the preeminent critic of psychiatry in the world.
[Thomas Szasz] is the preeminent critic of psychiatry in the world.“- Richard Vatz, Towson University;“Liberty and autonomy have their most able defender in Thomas Szasz.”- Sheldon Richman;“It takes an iconoclast with temerity and acumen to illuminate how unexamined myths and metaphors insidiously determine prevailing norms? norms considered unassailable and sacrosanct by the established medical/legal system.”- Jeffrey K. Zeig, Director, The Milton Erickson Foundation
About The Author
Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry, The Manufacture of Madness, Ideology and Insanity, Ceremonial Chemistry, The Myth of Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, and The Medicalization of Everyday Life.
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