PDF-(BOOK)-Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

In recent decades American medicine has become increasingly politicized and politics has become increasingly medicalized Behaviors previously seen as virtuous or wicked wise or unwise are now dealt with as healthy or sickunwanted behaviors to be controlled as if they were health issues The modern penchant for transforming human problems into diseases and judicial sanctions into treatments replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion leads to the creation of a type of government social critic Thomas Szasz calls pharmacracyMedicalizing troublesome behaviors and social problems is tempting to voters and politicians alike it panders to the people by promising to satisfy their needs for dependence on medical authority and offers easy selfaggrandizement to politicians as the dispensers of more and better health care Thus the people gain a convenient scapegoat enabling them to avoid personal responsibility for their behavior The government gains a rationale for endless and politically expedient wars against social problems defined as public health emergencies The health care system gains prestige funding and bureaucratic power that only an alliance with the political system can provideHowever Szasz warns the creeping substitution of pharmacracy for democracyprivate medical concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a political responseinexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity Pharmacracy Medicine and Politics in America is a clear and convincing presentation of this hidden danger all too often ignored in our health care debates and avoided in our political contests. doc Politics of Friendship versus Politics of Enmity For the ECPR Workshop on The Politics of Friendship Granada April 2005 Andrs Krsnyi Institute of Political Science Faculty of Law and Government Etvs University of Budapest Budapest Egyetem tr 13 1 The bulk of the data in American Grace comes from the Faith Matters surveys, original sources of data we designed, implemented, and analyzed. 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