Inventing disease and pushing pills : pharmaceutical companies and the medicalisation of normal life / Jörg Blech ; translated by Gisela Wallor Hajjar.

  • Blech, Jörg.
Date:
2006
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Milton Park, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2006.

Physical description

xii, 159 pages ; 22 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Limitless healing -- Myths of medicine -- A disease called diagnosis -- The risk factor merry-go-round -- Insanity as the norm -- Psycho pill with break-time snack -- The femininity syndrome -- Old men, new afflictions -- Whenever you want it -- Destiny in our genes -- Healthy beyond belief.

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    Medical Collection
    QV736 2006B64i
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ISBN

  • 0415390710
  • 0415390699