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Faith in freedom : libertarian principles and psychiatric practices / Thomas Szasz.

Title
Faith in freedom : libertarian principles and psychiatric practices / Thomas Szasz.
Author
Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012
Publication
New Brunswick : Transaction, c2004.

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Description
xvi, 264 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Expanding on ideas first developed in The Myth of Mental Illness, Ceremonial Chemistry and Liberation by Oppression, Faith in Freedom will be of interest to psychiatrists, sociologists, mental health practitioners, and students of political science."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Psychiatric ethics
  • Medical ethics
  • Patients > Legal status, laws, etc
  • Psychiatry > ethics
  • Patient Rights
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Ethics, Medical
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Responsibility : the moral foundation of liberty -- The libertarian credo and the ideology of psychiatry -- Economics and psychiatry : twin scientisms -- Economocracy and pharmacracy : twin systems of social control -- John Stuart Mill -- Bertrand Russell -- The American Civil Liberties Union -- Ayn Rand -- Nathaniel Branden -- Ludwig von Mises -- Friedrich von Hayek -- Murray N. Rothbard -- Robert Nozick -- Julian Simon -- Deirdre N. McCloskey.
ISBN
0765802449 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2003066308
OCLC
  • 53178376
  • SCSB-11679003
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library