Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal LifeThis is a highly accessible and reassuring account of how the pharmaceutical industry is redefining health, making it a state that is almost impossible to achieve. Many normal life processes - states as natural as birth, ageing, sexuality, unhappiness and death - are systematically being reinterpreted as pathological so creating new markets for their treatments. In this enlightening book, Jörg Blech reveals:
A self-help book in the truest sense, Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills reassures us about our own health. It is essential reading for doctors, nurses and patients alike. |
Contents
A disease called diagnosis | 3 |
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Risk factor merrygoround | 42 |
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