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Pharmacracy : medicine and politics in America / Thomas Szasz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, 2001.Description: xxiv, 212 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780275971960 :
  • 0275971961
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.10973 SZA
Contents:
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.
Summary: This work highlights how the introduction of third-party payers into medicine has altered the relationship between doctor and patient. It explains why patients are increasingly dissatisfied with the medical care they receive, and doctors with the way they have to practice medicine.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 362.10973 SZA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 205324

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

This work highlights how the introduction of third-party payers into medicine has altered the relationship between doctor and patient. It explains why patients are increasingly dissatisfied with the medical care they receive, and doctors with the way they have to practice medicine.

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