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Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life
Skeptical Inquirer, Nov-Dec, 2006 by Kendrick Frazier
Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life. Jorg Blech. 2006. Routledge, London and New York. 159 pp. Paper. The science correspondent for Der Spiegel reports on the invention of diseases by the pharmaceutical industry, how the medical profession has been bullied into endorsing profitable cures for people who aren't ill, and how the pharmaceutical companies create markets by playing on the general public's concern with their health.
This book was originally published in Germany, where it sold 250,000 copies. It has been published in a dozen languages, now including English.--K.F.
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