i read one of szasz books where he write on the transformation in the 20th century of medical personal, in general, into a "soldiers in the service of the...
I don't have the book in my possession right now, so I'm not sure if it contains the passage to which you refer, but 'Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in...
... An excellent article. Socialist health care in the Netherlands makes my body everybody’s business. Moreover, because “health care” seems to justify...
... Wow, that is an excellent way to put it. Our body's are no longer our own, but become part of the democratic process, politics determining what is best for...
... A good article, except where Szasz uses the collective pronouns - "**Our** national conversation about curbing the cost of health care is crippled by the...
... As Matt has noted, this is really well put, MIra. To generalize it - "Socialized health care in any country makes each person's body everyone else's...
... I am a new member of the group and I have gone over many parts of the contentions since the beginning in 2004 and I am particularly interested by the issue...
... If you have mumps or Alzheimer's Disease or any other illness there is an objective change in your body that may be used to identify the disease. Saying...
... Hi Michel and welcome. I'm flattered that you chose my mail to introduce yourself. In my message that you quoted I was assuming that we have to define ...
Hi Mira, Thank you for your warm welcome. Why to work on the definition of illness and the like In my previous post, I used the words "madness" and "illness"...
Michel talks about the an abnormal function of the human body and states that delusions and hallucinations are abnormal functions. But as Alan has said, just...
... I don't believe they *intend* to confuse, quite the contrary. They're trying to clarify in order to control the quality and accessibility of health care....
... This statement takes for granted that the notion of appropriate function is uncontroversial but it's not. If psychiatrists want to coerce a person into...
Hi Kenneth, There is no confusion between pretending to be Churchill on stage. And believing to be him out of the stage. The actor is on stage. He is not...
Alan said: " Concerning the Nazis, in my opinion, they had a collective delusion about the ... I disagree the Nazis had no delusions about the Jews. Hitler...
What is a delusion? "Boiling" it down to plain language, it's a belief (other than a religious belief considered "legitimate") that the speaker does not...
Alan, It is indeed possible to disagree on what is an appropriate function or behavior. It could be a departure from a natural norm, but it may also be it a...
... Yes, but not because of hitler. Hitler wrote nothing at all about homosexuality in Mein Kampf, and several historians have produced evidence that he...
The general function of an ideology is to veil the nature of the exercise of power in a society (any society). Inside societies, there are institutions that...
Hi Michel, You say that there is a difference between pretending to be Churchill on stage and believing to be him in "real" life and I would agree. But I...
'The question of reality--of what is, and is not, real--is properly one of politics. The idea of reality is just as much a part of the 'civil' law as the idea...
Hitler also had Jews in his ancestry as well, Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi applies. To: thomasszaszdiscussion@yahoogroups.com From: mirah@... Date: Tue,...
... There is plenty of evidence that he hated Jews, no evidence that he hated gays. There is, however, plenty of evidence that psychiatrists disapproved of...
You've no doubt heard about the 13-yr-old girl who wants to sail solo around the world. I'm wondering whether the libertarians on this list think the Dutch...
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