By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.


p. 167. - The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997)

Thomas Szasz Quotes

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social...

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social...

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social...

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social...