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

Written by Jörg Blech and Gisela Wallor Hajjar, this book sheds light on the rising power of the pharmaceutical industry and the new norms they are creating around health. The book exposes how the industry is creating new markets by redefining natural states such as birth, ageing, sexuality, unhappiness and death as pathological conditions. Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills is a reassuring guide for readers, highlighting how pharmaceutical companies are turning everyone into patients and offering practical advice on how to protect oneself.

• The book reveals how pharmaceutical companies invent diseases and create bogus cures.
• The medical profession is being coerced to endorse profitable and unnecessary treatments for people who aren’t ill.
• The book explores the public’s fear of illness and how pharmaceutical companies exploit this fear to create new markets for treatments.

The book is a valuable self-help guide for readers concerned about their health. It is an essential read for healthcare providers and patients alike.

Product Details

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