Disease-Mongers How Doctors, Drug Companies, and Insurers Are Making You Feel Sick

HOW TO CREATE DISEASE.The Disease-Mongers: How the Medical-Industrial Complex Persuades You to Be Sick.A Disease Is Not a ''Thing''.The Misuse of Diagnostic Tests.The Players and the Payers.Disease-Mongering Tactics.CASE STUDIES.Aches and Pains: Becoming a Patient.Lyme Disease and ''Lime'' Disease.If You're Tired, You Have...Allergy to Life and Everything Else.Creating Cardiac Cripples 1: ''Silent'' Myocardial Ischemia: Should You Take a Stress Test'.Creating Cardiac Cripples 2: Murmurs, Mitral Valve Prolapse, and Arrhythmias.The ''Diseasing'' of Risk Factors: High Cholesterol and Blood Pressure.The Medicalization of Menopause: Choose Your Disease.''Precancerous'' Breasts and the Overselling of Mammography.Cosmetic Considerations.Psychiatric ''Disorders'': From Hyperactive Kids to Anxiety and Insomnia.Diagnosing Our Genes.Putting Disease in Its Place: A Prescription for Change.Notes.Index.Payer, Lynn is the author of 'Disease-Mongers How Doctors, Drug Companies, and Insurers Are Making You Feel Sick' with ISBN 9780471007371 and ISBN 0471007374.