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Disease Mongers
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Author : Lynn Payer
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1992-08-28
Disease Mongers written by Lynn Payer and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-08-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Supported throughout by testimonies and interviews of prominent physicians and scientists concerned about disease-mongering, it takes an in-depth look at medical professionals who have a stake in keeping their patients convinced that they are, or are in immediate danger of becoming, sick. Examines each of the factors which have contributed to this insidious phenomenon—from an increase in the number of doctors and their specializations to the role of insurance companies. Details how to avoid disease-mongering professionals and how to keep your physician honest when dealing with you. Packed with case studies and anecdotes.
Selling Sickness
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Author : Ray Moynihan
language : en
Publisher: Greystone Books
Release Date : 2008-09-01
Selling Sickness written by Ray Moynihan and has been published by Greystone Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with Health & Fitness categories.
In this hard-hitting indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, Ray Moynihan and Allan Cassels show how drug companies are systematically using their dominating influence in the world of medical science, drug companies are working to widen the very boundaries that define illness. Mild problems are redefined as serious illness, and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Runny noses are now allergic rhinitis, PMS has become a psychiatric disorder, and hyperactive children have ADD. Selling Sickness reveals how expanding the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits, in turn threatening to bankrupt national healthcare systems all over the world. This Canadian edition includes an introduction placing the issue in a Canadian context and describing why Canadians should be concerned about the problem.
Big Pharma
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Author : Jacky Law
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2006-02-26
Big Pharma written by Jacky Law and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-26 with Health & Fitness categories.
Last year, the pharmaceutical industry had sales in excess of 300 billion. Clearly, we all pay in one way or another — whether by buying drugs directly or through taxation. But it is less clear if we are getting value for our money. Author Jacky Law shows how a small number of corporations have come to dominate the global healthcare agenda. She reveals a system in which the relentless pursuit of profit is crowding out the public good. Effective regulators are under intense pressure from corporate lobbies, and companies spend more money on marketing than they spend on research and development. Meanwhile, the cost of new drugs rises relentlessly, while the number of original new products declines. All is not well with modern medicine. In what is both a diagnosis and a recommended course of treatment, Big Pharma reveals a world where market considerations, not medical need, are determining the research agenda. The author points to a future where the public and the medical profession once again have a voice in the kind of healthcare we want — and the healthcare we pay for.
Inventing Disease And Pushing Pills
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Author : Jörg Blech
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-09
Inventing Disease And Pushing Pills written by Jörg Blech and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with Medical categories.
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: how the invention of diseases by pharmaceutical companies is turning us all into patients, and how we can protect ourselves against this how the medical profession has been bullied and co-opted into endorsing profitable cures for people who aren't ill fears about how pharmaceutical companies create markets by playing on the general public's concern with their health A self-help book in the truest sense, Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills reassures us about our own health. It is essential reading for doctors, nurses and patients alike.
Elgar Encyclopedia Of Healthcare Management
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Author : Federico Lega
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2023-08-14
Elgar Encyclopedia Of Healthcare Management written by Federico Lega and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-14 with Medical categories.
Management practices within the healthcare sector are shaped by a multitude of professional, social, political and technical factors. This Elgar Encyclopedia of Healthcare Management provides clarity with holistic definitions and descriptions of essential healthcare systems, leadership and administration. Both engaging with new principles of care and existing themes within managerial practices, it offers a broad look into management within the ever-evolving sector.
Strange Bedfellows
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Author : Ina Park
language : en
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Release Date : 2021-02-02
Strange Bedfellows written by Ina Park and has been published by Flatiron Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-02 with Science categories.
"Joyful and funny . . . Park uses science, compassion, humor, diverse stories and examples of her own shame-free living to take the stigma out of these infections." —The New York Times With curiosity and wit, Strange Bedfellows rips back the bedsheets to expose what really happens when STDs enter the sack. Sexually transmitted diseases have been hidden players in our lives for the whole of human history, with roles in everything from World War II to the growth of the Internet to The Bachelor. But despite their prominence, STDs have been shrouded in mystery and taboo for centuries, which begs the question: why do we know so little about them? Enter Ina Park, MD, who has been pushing boundaries to empower and inform others about sexual health for decades. With Strange Bedfellows, she ventures far beyond the bedroom to examine the hidden role and influence of these widely misunderstood infections and share their untold stories. Covering everything from AIDS to Zika, Park explores STDs on the cellular, individual, and population-level. She blends science and storytelling with historical tales, real life sexual escapades, and interviews with leading scientists—weaving in a healthy dose of hilarity along the way. The truth is, most of us are sexually active, yet we’re often unaware of the universe of microscopic bedfellows inside our pants. Park aims to change this by bringing knowledge to the masses in an accessible, no-nonsense, humorous way—helping readers understand the broad impact STDs have on our lives, while at the same time erasing the unfair stigmas attached to them. A departure from the cone of awkward silence and shame that so often surrounds sexual health, Strange Bedfellows is the straight-shooting book about the consequences of sex that all curious readers have been looking for.
Peddling Mental Disorder
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Author : Lawrie Reznek
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-03-15
Peddling Mental Disorder written by Lawrie Reznek and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with Social Science categories.
Psychiatry is a mess. Patients who urgently need help go untreated, while perfectly healthy people are over-diagnosed with serious mental disorders and receive unnecessary medical treatment. The roots of the problem are the vast pharmaceutical industry profits and a diagnostic system--the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)--vulnerable to exploitation. Drug companies have fostered the development of this system, pushing psychiatry to over-extend its domain so that more people can be diagnosed with mental disorders and treated with drugs. This book describes the steady expansion of the DSM--both the manual itself and its application--and the resulting over-medication of society. The author discusses revisions and additions to the DSM (now in its fifth edition) that have only deepened the epidemics of major depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, social anxiety disorder, attention deficit disorder and bipolar disorder.
The Routledge History Of Disease
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Author : Mark Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-08-05
The Routledge History Of Disease written by Mark Jackson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-05 with History categories.
The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease throughout the past and across the globe, presenting a varied range of case studies and perspectives on the patterns, technologies and narratives of disease that can be identified in the past and that continue to influence our present. Organized thematically, chapters examine particular forms and conceptualizations of disease, covering subjects from leprosy in medieval Europe and cancer screening practices in twentieth-century USA to the ayurvedic tradition in ancient India and the pioneering studies of mental illness that took place in nineteenth-century Paris, as well as discussing the various sources and methods that can be used to understand the social and cultural contexts of disease. Chapter 24 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315543420.ch24
Bizarre Bioethics
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Author : Henk A.M.J. ten Have
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2022-03
Bizarre Bioethics written by Henk A.M.J. ten Have and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03 with Medical categories.
Bizarre bioethics -- The establishment of bioethics - Ghosts - Monsters - Pilgrims - Prophets - Relics -- Critical bioethics.
Side Effects
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Author : David Haslam
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2019-06-01
Side Effects written by David Haslam and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-01 with Medical categories.
***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick*** 'David Haslam is uniquely placed to reflect on how healthcare has lost its way, what needs to be done to fix it and why all of us are responsible for doing so... The importance and timeliness of his messages shines through.' Dr Phil Hammond 'A fascinating and important book.' Dr Amanda Brown With a single drug in the UK currently costing £340,000 per patient per year, or a gene therapy in the USA being costed at $1.2million, who should get such treatments, and how can we begin to afford them? Should we all be entitled to timely mental health therapy? How should we care for our old? As we grapple with the world's worst pandemic for a century, our minds are on our health more than ever. But what should we rightfully expect of doctors? In this original and thought-provoking book, Sir David Haslam explores what good healthcare should achieve and asks how we pay for it. Informed by patient stories and data from across the world - from US big pharma to Britain's NHS - this is an urgent and often moving examination of our most important asset: our health.