‘Freedom is more important than health’: Thomas Szasz and the problem of paternalism

When Thomas Szasz summed up his philosophical principles at the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ annual meeting in Edinburgh in 2010, he declared that ‘freedom is more important than health’. Psychiatry is the arena in which the conflict between freedom and health comes most sharply into focus, accor...

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Autor principal: Moncrieff, Joanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2014
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Special Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507757
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spelling pubmed-67351282019-09-10 ‘Freedom is more important than health’: Thomas Szasz and the problem of paternalism Moncrieff, Joanna Int Psychiatry Special Paper When Thomas Szasz summed up his philosophical principles at the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ annual meeting in Edinburgh in 2010, he declared that ‘freedom is more important than health’. Psychiatry is the arena in which the conflict between freedom and health comes most sharply into focus, according to Szasz. This paper proposes some parallels with medicine in low-income countries for pointers towards a resolution of this conflict. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2014-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6735128/ /pubmed/31507757 Text en © 2014 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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