All Posts Tagged With: "medicine"
A Victim of the State, pt. 2
Now even speaking out against injustice can subject a person to criminal investigation. What’s next?
1Apr2011 | Sheldon Richman | 12 comments | ContinuedThe Illegitimacy of the “Psychiatric Bible”
“Mental health experts ask: Will anyone be normal?” So read the title of a July 27 Reuters report. The “experts” warned that the fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), scheduled for publication in 2013, “could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal. . . . [M]any people [...]
24Nov2010 | Thomas Szasz | 23 comments | ContinuedProtecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation
George Stigler once compared regulating on the basis of corporate misdeeds to an audition at which the second singer is selected after only the first has sung. When it comes to food and health, Philip Hilts, a veteran medical reporter, runs the same sort of abbreviated audition. His latest book is an eminently readable, amply [...]
7Jul2010 | Sam Kazman | 1 comment | ContinuedThe End of Medicine: Not With a Bang, But a Whimper
Social change can be revolutionary, sudden, and swift, but more commonly it moves at a glacial pace. Yet glaciers work great change, and great damage, given enough time. There has been much talk of people leaving the medical profession if government further bureaucratizes health care. But the odds are great that there won’t be any [...]
24Mar2010 | Theodore Levy | 6 comments | ContinuedNot with a Bang But a Whimper
Social change can be revolutionary, sudden, and swift. More commonly it moves at a glacier pace. Yet glaciers work great change, and great damage, given enough time.
3Nov2009 | Ross Levatter | 2 comments | ContinuedMedical Misunderstanding
Economic illiteracy will be hazardous to your health. Barack Obama says, “[T]he most significant driver — by far — of our long-term debt and our long-term deficits is ever-escalating health care costs. If we don’t reform how health care is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle [...]
22May2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedPsychiatry: A Branch of the Law
Medicine and law are independent but intimately interacting social institutions. Medicine guards its autonomy jealously and relates to the legal system as an equal partner. Psychiatry, in contrast, submits slavishly to being dominated by the law and obediently meets its demands. Herewith are some examples. On July 3, 2006, Orin Guidry, M.D., president of the [...]
1Dec2006 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | ContinuedGovernment Control of Medicine: Thanks, But No Thanks
Ralph Hood is writer in Huntsville, Alabama. Several years ago my doctor informed me that I have diabetes. I was, of course, horrified. What did I know about diabetes? He gave me info and directions, but I was overwhelmed. Then he handed me a box full of coupons and a list of what to buy [...]
1Apr2004 | Ralph Hood | 1 comment | ContinuedPharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America
This review was commissioned over a year ago. I was looking forward to writing it. But then the depression began. Stress. A new job. A major move. A new marriage. I felt unfocused, obviously not in a condition to write a review of an important new book. Many psychiatrists would have no problem diagnosing my [...]
1Aug2002 | Ross Levatter | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomists Against the FDA
A sulfa drug called Elixir Sulfanilamide released in 1937 killed over 100 Americans, mostly children. A sedative called Thalidomide released in Europe in 1957 and taken by pregnant women caused deformities in 10,000 children. These famous episodes strike us as horrible injustices that must be prevented. But more deadly are quack platitudes that guide public [...]
1Sep2000 | Daniel B. Klein | 8 comments | ContinuedMaterial Progress Over the Past Millennium
E. Calvin Beisner is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and the author of Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity and several other books applying Christian theology and ethics to political economy. An earlier version of this article appeared in World magazine. Reginald [...]
1Nov1999 | E. Calvin Beisner | 0 comments | ContinuedYour Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care
Even without Clintonian socialism, the private practice of medicine, in which the individual doctor is responsible to the individual patient, is on its last legs. Francis A. Davis, M.D. founder and publisher of Private Practice, recently shut down his 25-year-old magazine with the lament that the battle is lost. But I predict that Dr. Davis, [...]
1Jan1995 | Ron Paul M.D. | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Price of Free Medicine
Mr. Brogan is a British journalist, author, advocate of individualism, and critic of socialism. Britain’s experiment in socialized medicine should be of interest to those who wonder if the United States ought to try it. Last year the British National Health Service paid one million pounds ($2,800,000) for bottles and other containers to be used [...]
1Jun1956 | Colm Brogan | 0 comments | Continued-
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