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Forced smiles.(Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class)(Book review)

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Ronald W. Dworkin

Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side

of the New Happy Class.

Carroll & Graf, 336 pages, $24.95

The word "unhappy" has almost been banished from our vocabulary. It has been replaced by the word "depressed." For every patient who confesses to unhappiness, a thousand now claim to be depressed, what was once considered to be an inescapable part of the human condition has been elevated (or is it reduced?), by a semantic change, to an illness. And since good health care is now regarded as a right, the corollary of unhappiness being an illness is that people believe themselves to be entitled not merely to the pursuit of ...

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