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.