Pharmacracy : medicine and politics in America / Thomas Szasz.
Material type: TextPublication details: Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, 2001.Description: xxiv, 212 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780275971960 :
- 0275971961
- 362.10973 SZA
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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.