Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills
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Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills

Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life

Jörg Blech, Gisela Wallor Hajjar

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Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills

Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life

Jörg Blech, Gisela Wallor Hajjar

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About This Book

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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781000938579
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Health Care Delivery

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Limitless healing
  10. 2 Myths of medicine
  11. 3 A disease called diagnosis
  12. 4 Risk factor merry-go-round
  13. 5 Insanity as the norm
  14. 6 Psycho pill with break-time snack
  15. 7 The femininity syndrome
  16. 8 Old men, new afflictions
  17. 9 Whenever you want it
  18. 10 Destiny in our genes
  19. 11 Healthy beyond belief
  20. Appendix: Twelve questions to diagnose invented diseases and dubious treatments
  21. Notes
  22. Internet addresses
  23. Index
Citation styles for Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills

APA 6 Citation

Blech, J., & Hajjar, G. W. (2023). Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills (1st ed.). Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/4140555 (Original work published 2023)

Chicago Citation

Blech, Jörg, and Gisela Wallor Hajjar. (2023) 2023. Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills. 1st ed. Routledge. https://www.perlego.com/book/4140555.

Harvard Citation

Blech, J. and Hajjar, G. W. (2023) Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills. 1st edn. Routledge. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/4140555 (Accessed: 25 June 2024).

MLA 7 Citation

Blech, Jörg, and Gisela Wallor Hajjar. Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills. 1st ed. Routledge, 2023. Web. 25 June 2024.