All Posts Tagged With: "Alan Turing"

The Shame of Medicine: Alan Turing Redux

In my May 2009 column I recounted the tragic story of the medical-legal persecution of the famed British mathematician and World War II code breaker Alan Turing. In June, John Graham-Cumming, a British computer programmer, created a petition on the “No. 10 Downing Street” website asking for a government apology for Turing’s mistreatment. On September [...]

24Feb2010 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | Continued

The Shame of Medicine: The Case of Alan Turing

The posthumous diagnosis of suicide as mental illness is the ritual degradation ceremony of our therapeutic age, much as the posthumous burning of the heretic’s corpse was the ritual degradation ceremony of an earlier theological age.

24Apr2009 | Thomas Szasz | 17 comments | Continued
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