All Posts Tagged With: "coercive psychiatry"
Antifederalists Vindicated
If the Antifederalists were still on the scene today, they might be saying — as they would have been saying right along — “Told you so.”
21May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 15 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Were Missionaries Like Psychiatrists? To the Editor: People have misunderstood and maligned Christians for two millennia, but goodness, must Dr. Szasz compare us to coercive quacks? He writes in The Freeman’s July/August 2007 issue: “Consider this parallel between psychiatry and missionary Christianity. The heathen savage does not suffer from lack of insight into the divinity [...]
1Nov2007 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | ContinuedPrimum Nocere
Although the phrase “First, Do No Harm” is not in the Hippocratic Oath, in the opinion of many scholars Hippocrates did originate it. In his book, Epidemics, he wrote: “As to diseases, make a habit of two things—to help, or at least to do no harm.” This principle, usually expressed in its Latin translation, Primum [...]
1Dec2004 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | Continued-
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