Description
By Jörg Blech, Gisela Wallor Hajjar
This 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:
- how the invention of diseases by pharmaceutical companies is turning us all into patients, and how we can protect ourselves against this
- how the medical profession has been bullied and co-opted into endorsing profitable cures for people who aren’t ill
- fears about how pharmaceutical companies create markets by playing on the general public’s concern with their health.
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.
Product Details
- Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (June 22, 2006)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0415390699
- ISBN-13 : 978-0415390699
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