{"product_id":"9780815609902","title":"Suicide Prohibition : The Shame of Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Western thought, suicide has evolved from sin to sin-and-crime, to crime, to mental illness, and to semilegal act. A legal act is one we are free to think and speak about and plan and perform, without penalty by agents of the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile dying voluntarily is ostensibly legal, suicide attempts and even suicidal thoughts are routinely punished by incarceration in a psychiatric institution. Although many people believe the prevention of suicide is one of the duties the modern state owes its citizens, Szasz argues that suicide is a basic human right and that the lengths to which the medical industry goes to prevent it represent a deprivation of that right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on his general theory of the myth of mental illness, Szasz makes a compelling case that the voluntary termination of one's own life is the result of a decision, not a disease. He presents an in-depth examination and critique of contemporary antisuicide policies, which are based on the notion that voluntary death is a mental health problem, and systematically lays out the dehumanizing consequences of psychiatrizing suicide prevention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf suicide be deemed a problem, it is not a medical problem. Managing it as if it were a disease, or the result of a disease, will succeed only in debasing medicine and corrupting the law. Pretending to be the pride of medicine, psychiatry is its shame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52278137585975,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":108.08,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780815609902-1.jpg?v=1783129159","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780815609902","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}