Tag Archives: Thomas S. Szasz

Without Informed Consent: The Global Export of a Failed Paradigm of Care

Posted on 2026/03/12 by Warzone Distro

From back cover: “The discourse around health as a human rights issue usually focuses on access to medical treatment. However, the “right to health” begins with the right to informed consent about the merits of a treatment, which has been … Continue reading →

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Questioning (the authority of) Psychiatry

Posted on 2017/09/07 by Warzone Distro

In 1961, a young psychiatrist by the name of Thomas S. Szasz initiated a one-man insurgency against his own profession. After years of being a practicing psychiatrist, he became an outspoken dissident, hell-bent on dynamiting the foundations of psychiatry. “Why … Continue reading →

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