The modern penchant for transforming human problems into diseases and judicial sanctions into treatments, replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to a type of government social critic Thomas Szasz calls pharmacracy. He warns that the creeping substitution of democracy for pharmacracyprivate personal concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a medical-political responseinexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity. | Pharmacracy by Thomas Szasz, Paperback | Indigo Chapters