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Highlights
- Fatal Freedom is an eloquent defense of every individual's right to choose F a voluntary death.
- About the Author: Thomas Szasz was professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse.
- 198 Pages
- Psychology, Suicide
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About the Book
In this thoughtful and compelling analysis, the world's foremost critic of coercions of the psychiatric institution defends a patient's right to choose life or death.Book Synopsis
Fatal Freedom is an eloquent defense of every individual's right to choose F a voluntary death. By maintaining statutes that determine that voluntary death is not legal, Thomas Szasz believes that our society is forfeiting one of its basic freedoms and causing the psychiatric medical establishment to treat individuals in a manner that is disturbingly inhumane.
Society's penchant for defining behavior it terms objectionable as a dis-ease has created a psychiatric establishment that exerts far too much influ-ence over how and when we choose to die. In a compelling argument that clearly and intelligently addresses one of the most significant ethical issues of our time, Szasz compares suicide to other practices that historically began as sins, became crimes, and now arc seen as mental illnesses.About the Author
Thomas Szasz was professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse. The author of more than six hun-dred articles and twenty-four books, he is widely recognized as the leading critic of various coercive forms employed by the psychiatric medical establishment. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry; The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement; and Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market.Dimensions (Overall): 9.14 Inches (H) x 5.98 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .69 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 198
Genre: Psychology
Sub-Genre: Suicide
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Thomas Szasz
Language: English
Street Date: August 1, 2002
TCIN: 88975695
UPC: 9780815607557
Item Number (DPCI): 247-56-8204
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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