Thomas Szasz

Ceremonial Chemistry

The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labeling and prohibiting certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating drug "addicts" in order to cure them. Szasz asserts that such policies scapegoat illegal drugs and the persons who use and sell them, and discourage the breaking of drug habits by pathologizing drug use as "addiction." Reaers will find in Szasz's arguments a cogent and committed response to a worldwide debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 136mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780815607687
• ISBN-10: 0815607687
• Artikelnr.: 21553843

Autorenporträt

Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. The author of more than six hundred articles and twenty-eight books, he is widely recognized as the leading critic of the coercive interventions employed by the psychiatric establishment. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: An Inquiry into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices; The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement; Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market; and Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America.