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Nearly 40 years after psychiatrist Karl Menninger called the medical profession on the carpet for misnaming medical conditions so that various forms of treatment could be justified and, 24 years later, Susan Sontag declared that "illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust," noted and controversial psychiatrist Szasz (Fatal Freedom), as lively and contentious as ever, pursues similar lines of thought, examining the medicalization of politics and the politics of medicine in contemporary America. At the base of what he calls our modern "pharmacracy" a state where "all sorts of human problems are transformed into diseases and the rule of law extends into the rule of medicine" stands a virulent misunderstanding of disease, in the "literal" or scientific sense
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