Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life (PDF Book)
By Jörg Blech, Gisela Wallor Hajjar
This is a fascinating insight into how the pharmaceutical industry is reshaping our idea of health, creating an unattainable state that leads to new markets for their treatments. Author Jörg Blech uncovers:
- How pharmaceutical companies invent diseases, turning us all into patients, and how we can protect ourselves
- The ways in which medical practitioners have been coerced into endorsing profitable but unnecessary cures for non-existent illnesses
- The alarming power pharmaceutical companies have in creating markets through leveraging on general health concerns
Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills is a self-help book that offers valuable insights into the pharmaceutical industry’s impact on our everyday lives. It is a must-read for healthcare professionals and patients alike.
Product Details
- Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (June 22, 2006)
- Language: English
- Format: Digital eBook
- Length: 160 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415390699
- ISBN-13: 978-0415390699