Thomas S. Szasz, M.D. (1920 - 2012) Pharmacracy - Medicine and Politics in America (2001)
7 Political medicine
The Therapeutic State
...Formerly, people rushed to embrace totalitarian states. Now they rush to embrace the therapeutic state. When they discover that the therapeutic state is about tyranny, not therapy, it will be too late.
Epilogue
...With astonishing prescience, Goethe anticipated such a “humanistic medicalization” of life. He wrote: “I believe that in the end humanitarianism will triumph, but I fear that, at the same time, the world will become a big hospital, each person acting as the other’s humane nurse.”