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The modern penchant for transforming human problems into \"diseases\" and judicial sanctions into \"treatments,\" replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to a type of government social critic Thomas Szasz calls \"pharmacracy.\" He warns that the creeping substitution of democracy for pharmacracyprivate personal concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a medical-political responseinexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity. | Pharmacracy by Thomas Szasz, Paperback | Indigo Chapters