This new book features several sections on women's health issues, and
demonstrates how women are often the target market of these new
'diseases' for which there are expensive, and sometimes dangerous,
pharmaceutical 'cures'.
Now available
Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are
Turning Us All into Patients
by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
A controversial and provocative look at the way pharmaceutical companies
are helping to create and market illness.
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.

About the Authors:
Ray Moynihan has been covering the business of health care for almost a
decade as an award-winning broadcast journalist and more recently with
the British Medical Journal. 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.
Alan Cassels is a drug policy researcher at the University of Victoria,
in British Columbia. He has spent most the last ten years studying how
clinical research about prescription drugs is communicated to policy
makers, prescribers, and consumers and has produced several full-length
documentaries for CBC Ideas, including “Manufacturing Patients,” which
deals with the subject of selling sickness.

Selling Sickness is now available in any major bookstore, or online at
www.amazon.com or www.amazon.ca, or from the publishers, below:
Canadian Edition:
Greystone Books
Tel: (604) 254-7191
http://www.greystonebooks.ca

US Edition:
Avalon Publishing Group
(510) 595-3664
http://www.avalonpub.com


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