Cruel compassion : psychiatric control of society's unwanted

Author(s)

• Szasz, Thomas Stephen

Bibliographic Information

Cruel compassion : psychiatric control of society's unwanted

Thomas Szasz

Syracuse University Press, 1998

• pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Originally published: New York : Wiley, c1994

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-252) and indexes

Details

• NCID: BA43450294
• ISBN:
  • 0815605102
• LCCN: 97042659
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Syracuse, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 264 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RC451.4.S62
  • NLM : Not Acquired
  • NLM : WM 100 S996c 1994a
  • DC21 : 362.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Involuntary treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects
  • LCSH : Socially handicapped -- Mental health services
  • LCSH : Psychiatric ethics
  • LCSH : Paternalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
  • LCSH : Social control
  • LCSH : Antipsychiatry
  • MESH : Mental Disorders
  • MESH : Social Control, Formal