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Author Szasz, Thomas

Title Liberation by Oppression : a Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Perilous Rescues; 1. Psychiatric Slavery: Legal Fiction and the Rhetoric of Therapeutic Oppression; 2. The Psychiatric Slave Status: From Dred Scott to Tarasoff; 3. Psychiatric Slavery as Public Health: Infection and Insanity; 4. Justifying Psychiatric Slavery: "Dangerousness" as Disease; 5. Jim Crow Psychiatry I: The Psychiatric Will and Its Enemies; 6. Jim Crow Psychiatry II: The Patient Self-Determination Act; 7. Expanding Psychiatric Slavery: Outpatient Commitment
8. Glorifying Psychiatric Slavery: Therapeutic JurisprudenceEpilogue: "Liberty is the Prevention of Control by Others" ; Appendix I: The Power of False Truths: The Maternity Hospital and the Mental Hospital; Appendix II: Victims of Psychiatric Slavery: A Sampler; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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Subject History.
History
history (discipline)
History
Form Electronic book
Author Levine, Alan
ISBN 9781351508780
1351508784