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Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life (EPUB)

How Pharmaceutical Companies Are Redefining Health

By Jrg 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.

The Invention of Diseases

In this enlightening book, Jrg Blech reveals how the invention of diseases by pharmaceutical companies is turning us all into patients, and how we can protect ourselves against this.

The Medical Profession and Pharmaceutical Companies

He also reveals how the medical profession has been bullied and co-opted into endorsing profitable cures for people who aren’t ill.

Fears and Concerns

Fears about how pharmaceutical companies create markets by playing on the general public’s concern with their health are also addressed in the book.

A Self-Help Book

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.

Book Details

Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (June 22, 2006)
Language: English
Hardcover: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 0415390699
ISBN-13: 978-0415390699

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