Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays
by Thomas Stephen Szasz, Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz examines how everyday behaviors and social issues have been redefined as medical problems, questioning the expanding reach of psychiatry and medicine.
About This Book
Medicalization of Everyday Life presents selected essays by Thomas Szasz exploring the growth of medical influence over ordinary life.
The work questions how behaviors once viewed as personal or moral concerns have become framed as medical conditions.
Szasz discusses the implications of this shift for individual freedom and social policy.
Readers encounter arguments about psychiatry, personal responsibility, and the boundaries of medical practice.
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