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

by Jörg Blech

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 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.

Genres: Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

First published August 31, 2003

Reviews

[Lariatte16 · Rating 3 out of 5]

248 Seiten.
Bis ungefähr Seite 80 hat es mich gelangweilt, es ist auch etwas älter (aktualisiert 2005), aber am Ende war es tatsächlich noch interessant.

[Tiago Rebelo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muito consciente

[Marc · Rating 3 out of 5]

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