Seeking Sickness - Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

Informationen zum Autor Alan Cassels is a drug policy researcher at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, and is the co-author (with Ray Moynihan) of the international bestseller Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients.Dr. H. Gilbert Welch is a general internist whose research focuses on the problems created by medicine's efforts to detect disease early. Most of his work has focused on overdiagnosis in cancer screening. He is the author of Should I be Tested for Cancer? and Overdiagnosed. Klappentext Why wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right? Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. His "Seeking Sickness" takes us inside the world of medical screening, where well-meaning practitioners and a profit-motivated industry offer to save our lives by exploiting our fears. He writes that promoters of screening overpromise on its benefits and downplay its harms, which can range from the merely annoying to the life threatening. If you're facing a screening test for breast or prostate cancer, high cholesterol, or low testosterone, someone is about to turn you into a patient. You need to ask yourself one simple question: "Am I ready for all the things that could go wrong?"

Product details

• Authors: Alan Cassels, Alan/ Welch Cassels, Cassels Alan
• Assisted by: H. Gilbert Welch (Foreword)
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.07.2012
• EAN: 9781771000321
• ISBN: 978-1-77100-032-1
• No. of pages: 177
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Diagnosis, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Popular medicine & health, Coping with illness & specific conditions, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General