Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills

<p>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:</p><ul> <li>how the invention of diseases by pharmaceutical companies is turning us all into patients and how we can protect ourselves against this </li> <li>how the medical profession has been bullied and co-opted into endorsing profitable cures for people who aren't ill</li> <li>fears about how pharmaceutical companies create markets by playing on the general public's concern with their health.</li> </ul><p>A self-help book in the truest sense <em>Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills</em> reassures us about our own health. It is essential reading for doctors nurses and patients alike. </p>