Jörg Blech

Broschiertes Buch

Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills

Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 225g
• ISBN-13: 9780415390712
• ISBN-10: 0415390710
• Artikelnr.: 21731518