Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

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.