Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills
Taylor & Francis

Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Health, Health & personal development
ISBN13: 9780415390712
Published: 15 Jun 2006

Format - Paperback / softback
By Jörg Blech

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Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills

Regular price A$88.00
Sale price A$88.00 Regular price A$110.00
Product description

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.

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