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  • Half a century later he maintains we live in a therapeutic statea 'pharmacracy'and that psychiatry is a' pseudoscientific racket '.

    unknown title 2009

  • Half a century later he maintains we live in a therapeutic state - a 'pharmacracy' where psychiatry is synonymous with coercion.

    unknown title 2009

  • Half a century later he maintains we live in a therapeutic state - a 'pharmacracy' where psychiatry is synonymous with coercion.

    unknown title 2009

  • The question is even more sensitive in the case of Thomas Szasz proposed that the entire concept of 'mental illness' is a tool of social control at the hands of a 'pharmacracy'.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • 'pharmacracy' where psychiatry is synonymous with coercion.

    unknown title 2009

  • Radical feminists such as Gena Corea draw a sharp distinction between what the “pharmacracy” sees and what women experience, arguing that the reproductive biotechnology establishment relies on a distorted and stereotyped picture of the nature, desires, and needs of women, as well as the success rate of the technologies it purveys (Corea 1985; Brazier 1998).

    Parenthood and Procreation Bayne, Tim 2006

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