Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills

Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life

Jörg Blech, Gisela Wallor Hajjar

• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000938579
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Medicine
• Thema: Health Care Delivery

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Limitless healing
• 2 Myths of medicine
• 3 A disease called diagnosis
• 4 Risk factor merry-go-round
• 5 Insanity as the norm
• 6 Psycho pill with break-time snack
• 7 The femininity syndrome
• 8 Old men, new afflictions
• 9 Whenever you want it
• 10 Destiny in our genes
• 11 Healthy beyond belief
• Appendix: Twelve questions to diagnose invented diseases and dubious treatments
• Notes
• Internet addresses
• Index