The Theology of Medicine: The Political-Philosophical Foundations of Medical Ethics

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Syracuse University Press, Apr 1, 1988 - Medical - 198 pages
 

Contents

The Moral Physician
1
Illness and Indignity
18
The Moral Justifications
24
The Ethics of Behavior Therapy
49
The Ethics of Suicide
68
Language and Lunacy
86
The Right to Health
100
Justice in the Therapeutic State
118
The Illogic and Immorality of Involuntary Psychiatric
134
The Metaphors of Faith and Folly
140
Index
164
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About the author (1988)

Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry, The Manufacture of Madness, Ideology and Insanity, Ceremonial Chemistry, The Myth of Psychotherapy, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, and The Medicalization of Everyday Life, all published by Syracuse University Press.

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