Inventing disease and pushing pills
Subtitle: pharmaceutical companies and the medicalisation of normal life
By: Jörg Blech ; translated by Gisela Wallor Hajjar.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Milton Park, Oxon; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Drug utilization; Pharmaceutical industry; Drugs -- Social aspects; Drug Industry; Marketing; Sociology, Medical
Description: "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, not being happy, and death - are systematically reinterpreted as pathological, thus creating new markets for their treatment."--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Limitless healing; title: Myths of medicine; title: A disease called diagnosis; title: The risk factor merry-go-round; title: Insanity as the norm; title: Psycho pill with break-time snack; title: The femininity syndrome; title: Old men, new afflictions; title: Whenever you want it; title: Destiny in our genes; title: Healthy beyond belief.