Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide

In this thoughtful and compelling analysis, the world's foremost critic of coercions of the psychiatric institution defends a patient's right to choose life or death. Fatal Freedom is an eloquent defense of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death. By maintaining statues that determine that voluntary death is not legal, Thomas Szasz believes that our society is forfeiting one of its basic freedoms and causing the psychiatric medical establishment to treat individuals in a manner that is disturbingly inhumane.

Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Publications in Continuin
Published: 08/01/2002
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.14h x 5.98w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780815607557

About the Author
Thomas Szasz was professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse. The author of more than six hun-dred articles and twenty-four books, he is widely recognized as the leading critic of various coercive forms employed by the psychiatric medical establishment. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry; The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement; and Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market.