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Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xiii
Demarcating Disease from Nondisease
Mental Illness: A Metaphorical Disease 3
Mental Illness: The New Phlogiston 10
Might Makes the Metaphor 19
Diagnosis: From Description to Prescription 21
Diagnoses Are Not Diseases 27
The Existential Identity Thief 37
Defining Disease 41
Disturbing Behavior and Medicine's Responses to It
The Origin of Psychiatry: Coercion as Cure 55
Hysteria as Language 71
Routine Neonatal Circumcision: A Medical Ritual 80
The Fatal Temptation: Drug Control and Suicide 90
Pedophilia Therapy 94
Psychiatry's War on Criminal Responsibility 102
Killing as Therapy: The Case of Terri Schiavo 117
Peter Singer's Ethics of Medicalization 134
Pharmacracy: The New Despotism 150
Notes 171
Selected Bibliography 189
Index 197
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