Abstract
The phrase “the right to treatment” became popular during the 1960s. As soon as it did, I denounced it as pernicious nonsense, contrived by public interest lawyers who fancy themselves to be civil libertarians, but who are, in fact, the bitterest enemies of civil liberties.1
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Szasz, T. S. The Right to Health, The Georgetown Law Journal 57: 734–751 (March, 1969 )
Szasz, T. S. The Theology of Medicine. New York: Harper/Colophon, 1977, pp. 100–117;
Szasz, T. S. Psychiatric Slavery: When Confinement and Coercion Masquerade as Cure. New York: The Free Press, 1977.
Szasz, Psychiatric Slavery, 57: 734–751 (March, 1969), especially Chapters 1 and 8.
See, for example, Sadoff, R. L., On Refusing Treatment: Rights and Remedies, Advocacy Now 1: 57–60 (August, 1979 )
Schaeffer, P. Court Rules That Mental Patients Have Right to Refuse Treat¬ment, Clinical Psychiatry News 8: 1 & 36–37 (January, 1980 ).
Szasz, T. S. The Right to Health, The Georgetown Law Journal 57: 734–751 (March, 1969 ).
Cited in Westin, A. F. Medical Records: Should Patients Have Access? Hastings Center Report, December, 1977, pp. 23–28; p. 23.
Cited in, APA objects to proposed drug inserts, Psychiatric News 14: 16 (December 7, 1979 ).
Szasz, T. S. The Myth of Mental Illness. The American Psychologist 15: 113–118 (February, 1960 ), p. 118;
Szasz, T. S Ideology and Insanity, pp. 12–24. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday Anchor, 1970, p. 24.
Slovenko, R., Prostitution and STD: When Treatment Becomes Punishment. Sexual Medicine Today, January, 1980, pp. 14–15.
Involuntary care approved, American Medical News, December 21, 1979, p. 14.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1962 HUMANA Press Inc.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Szasz, T. (1962). The Right to Refuse Treatment. In: Bell, N.K. (eds) Who Decides?. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5823-0_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5823-0_8
Publisher Name: Humana Press
Print ISBN: 978-1-4612-5825-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-4612-5823-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive