Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life by Blech, Jörg

Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415390712)

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Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life by Blech, Jörg

Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life

$76.99
Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life by Blech, Jörg

Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life

$76.99
Format: Paperback
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The invention of a whole range of diseases including penis-size anxiety and internet addiction is turning us all into patients. Jörg Blech investigates how inventing disease is fast becoming a profitable business and unearths the real motives of those pulling the strings.

Author: Jörg Blech
ISBN-10: 0415390710
ISBN-13: 9780415390712
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2006
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.45h x 6.59w x 0.55d
By Jörg Blech
By Jörg Blech
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Jorg Blech studied biology and biochemistry at the University of Cologne, Germany and the University of Sussex, UK. He was then trained as a journalist and was awarded internships in Paris, Washington DC and Bangkok. He is the science correspondent for the magazine Der Spiegel and lives with his family in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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