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

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

xii, 159 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.