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Contents
Shakespeares Plays | 13 |
The Contemporary Scene | 21 |
Dictionaries of Deviance | 37 |
Dictionaries of Drunkenness | 81 |
n METAPHORIC MALADY MORAL RESPONSIBILITY | 99 |
Mental Illness and Mental Incompetence | 111 |
The Illusion of Mental Patients Rights | 127 |
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A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility and Psychiatry Thomas Szasz Limited preview - 2017 |
A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility, and Psychiatry Thomas Stephen Szasz No preview available - 1993 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Lexicon of Lunacy |
| Author | Thomas Szasz |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers, 1993 |
| ISBN | 1412816122, 9781412816120 |
| Length | 202 pages |
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