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Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine
Thomas Szasz
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Description for Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine
Hardcover. First in-depth examination and critique of contemporary anti-suicide policies that are based on the notion that voluntary death is a mental health problem, and systematically lays out the dehumanizing consequences of psychiatrizing suicide prevention. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JFME; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
In Western thought, suicide has evolved from sin to sin-and-crime, to crime, to mental illness, and to semilegal act. A legal act is one we are free to think and speak about and plan and perform, without penalty by agents of the state.
While dying voluntarily is ostensibly legal, suicide attempts and even suicidal thoughts are routinely punished by incarceration in a psychiatric institution. Although many people believe the prevention of suicide is one of the duties the modern state owes its citizens, Szasz argues that suicide is a basic human right and that the lengths to which the ... Read more
In Western thought, suicide has evolved from sin to sin-and-crime, to crime, to mental illness, and to semilegal act. A legal act is one we are free to think and speak about and plan and perform, without penalty by agents of the state.
While dying voluntarily is ostensibly legal, suicide attempts and even suicidal thoughts are routinely punished by incarceration in a psychiatric institution. Although many people believe the prevention of suicide is one of the duties the modern state owes its citizens, Szasz argues that suicide is a basic human right and that the lengths to which the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
148
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815609902
SKU
V9780815609902
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About Thomas Szasz
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, and The Medicalization of Everyday Life.
Reviews for Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine
[Thomas Szasz] is the preeminent critic of psychiatry in the world."- Richard Vatz, Towson University; "Liberty and autonomy have their most able defender in Thomas Szasz."- Sheldon Richman; "It takes an iconoclast with temerity and acumen to illuminate how unexamined myths and metaphors insidiously determine prevailing norms? norms considered unassailable and sacrosanct by the established medical/legal system."- Jeffrey ... Read more