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The Manufacture of Madness - A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R474
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The Manufacture of Madness - A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (Paperback, New edition)

Thomas Szasz

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Every age, Thomas Szasz maintains, has its methods of labeling others to assign them a particular fate; the witch and the heretic were consigned to fire, for example. In the twentieth century, however, the priest has been replaced by the psychiatrist, the infidel by the patient; only the way in which the victims differ from society at large with its ensuing punishment (all for the good of society, then, as now) is different. Indeed, Szasz makes it clear that medicine is if anything a more insidious tyrant than religion because it purports to be beneficial to the patient as well as the commonwealth.

"Of the thousands of books published each year in the United States, only a small proportion represents a significant contribution to the advancement of man's understanding of man. In my opinion, The Method of Madness is one of those rare books". -- American Sociological Review

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Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 1997
First published: March 1997
Authors: Thomas Szasz
Dimensions: 209 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 406
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0461-7
Categories: Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
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LSN: 0-8156-0461-0
Barcode: 9780815604617

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