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| #1960455 in Books | Szasz Thomas Stephen | 2011-10-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.87 x.65 x5.77l,.70 | File Name: 0815609906 | 132 pages | Suicide Prohibition
||18 of 21 people found the following review helpful.| Suicide Prohibition-The shame of Medicine|By Duiscover|Fifty-one years, and twenty books since the publication of his paradigmatic "The Myth of Mental Illness", Thomas Szasz, at the age of 91, writes "Suicide Prohibition"-"THE SHAME OF MEDICINE." That is his shortest book and his sharpest moral indictment of medical/psychiatric practice ever. In touching the untouchable|About the Author|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
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 ...
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