Product Description

"Selling Sickness" reveals how widening 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. As more and more ordinary life becomes medicalised, the industry moves ever closer to Gadsen's dream: 'selling to everyone'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #557868 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Ray Moynihan has been covering the business of healthcare for almost a decade, first with the ABC and the Australian Financial Review, and more recently with the British Medical Journal, where he is a visiting editor. He is a regular contributor to the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet and was a Harkness Fellow in health care policy based at Harvard University. His TV documentary on the selling of sickness was recently screened on SBS. Alan Cassels is a Canadian science writer.

Customer Reviews

the pharmascams accelerate
An excellent exposé of 10 or more examples of manufactured or exaggerated illness, from adult attention deficit disorder to osteoporosis. Overblown promotions of drugs and concealment of drug side-effects well explained. Big Pharma's use of public relations firms to create fear of some more or less normal conditions and its secret ownership of some patient support groups are shown. Its lobbying is legendary. Books like this could save your life and the lives of your loved ones, and can certainly help to avoid much unnecessary pain and damage.

There's valuable information here, from an excellent investigative journalist. Everyone should know about this book, as well as similarly worthwhile books like Trick and Treat, The Truth about the Drug Companies, Dirty Medicine, Racketeering In Medicine, The Great Cholesterol Con, Heart Frauds, How to Protect Your Heart from Your Doctor, Confessions of a Medical Heretic (amusingly written, by a medical doctor, as well as scandalous), The Medical Mafia (also by a medic, similar theme as Confessions and passionately but badly written), Cancer is Not a Disease, Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth, The Cancer Industry, Why We will Never Win the War on AIDS and the many books against vaccination, the biggest scam that is maiming and killing the coming generations.