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The Cancer Industry, New Updated Edition 7 reviews
Ralph W. Moss
Equinox Press, 1996
Thank you Ralph Moss
+ Dry but worth the read
+ Excellent Book Documenting the Business with Disease
+ BEWARE THE MEDICAL-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
+ Prepare To Be Less Trusting After Reading This Expose
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Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs 14 reviews
Stephen Fried
Bantam, 1999
Required reading for any empowered patient
+ This story also happened to me
+ A Great Expose of Legal Drugs and the FDA
+ An Important Issue Gets Excellent Reporting
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Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-care System22 reviews
Nortin M. Hadler
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004
Great Book very informative.
+ What happens when your medical care is paid for by other peoples' money.
+ Physician Review of The Last Well Person
+ Ignore your doctor but take care of yourself.
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The Secrets of Medical Decision Making: How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine6 reviews
Oleg I. Reznik
Loving Healing Press, 2005
Informative. Always ask "why?"
+ Must Reading
+ "Primum Non Nocere"
+ Important, Enlightening, Instructive, an Eye Opener
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Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients27 reviews
Ray Moynihan, Alan Cassels
Nation Books, 2005
WAKE UP AMERICA!
+ the pharmascams accelerate
+ Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel Exposed
+ Must read before popping another pill.
+ A must read
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Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection359 reviews
John E. Sarno
Warner Books, 1991
Learning to read might be the first emotional problem to overcome
+ Life changer
+ It will take more than just reading it but it DOES WORK!
I was sort of amazed that at least five reviewers here knocked Dr. Sarno's book because they couldn't find a method in the book to follow. For example:
"I read it, and it didn't change a thing. And there is no description of the actual method."
"Sarno's book helped me understand the cause of ...
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Malignant Medical Myths: Why MEdical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA each Year, and How to Protect ...10 reviews
Joel M Kauffman Phd
Infinity Publishing, 2006
Evidence based medicine at it's best!
+ a must-read book
+ Convincing expose of common medical myths
+ malignant medical myths
+ Buy One for your Physician
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Honest Medicine: Shattering the Myths About Aging and Health Care
Donald J. Murphy
Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1996
"In a warmhearted, practical manner Murphy argues that most older people are overmedicated, overtested, harrassed, and made needlessly anxious about health problems. . . . Honest Medicine is a gentle geriatrician's reassuring book that combines common sense with information from the most recent clinical studies."--Modern Maturity.
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The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease42 reviews
Uffe Ravnskov
NewTrends Publishing, Inc., 2000
Cholesterol -the hidden truths
+ Narrow thesis, well researched and well proven
+ No Longer Being Published
This is an amazing book.Dr Ravsnkov exposes many flaws in the research that has been done to support the belief that high cholesterol causes heart disease. A very comprehensive approach that enables us to examine the research behind the supposed cholesterol-heart link.In doing this it also acts as ...
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Lipitor: Thief of Memory, Statin Drugs and the Misguided War on Cholesterol20 reviews
M.D. Duane Graveline
Infinity Publishing, 2004
A must read before starting statins
+ life-saving book
+ Some vital information about statins
+ A real eye-opener
+ MEDICAL DOCTOR SLAMS MOST POPULAR MEDICINES!
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Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic10 reviews
J. Eric Oliver
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005
It's not the fat, it's the politics
+ Fascinating research, weak conclusion
+ Mostly right but
+ Fat Politics
+ Good book, that I didn't fully agree with
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Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health3 reviews
Ivan Illich
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000
Another brilliant, well-written book by Illich!
+ medicine can be toxic in excess
+ Ivan Illich and Modern Medicine
In this book, much like Deschooling Society, Illich attacks the issue from all sides. He consistenly provides an excellent argument with examples, statistics, and well-done research. Though this book is not quite as fast-paced as Deschooling Society, it is equally engaging. Illich not only ...
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Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies 10 reviews
Greg Critser
Mariner Books, 2007
Articulate and Insightful
+ Especially for those in a medical field
+ The Rx syndrome:
Here, as in his FAT LAND, Critser performs a public service in the best possible format. Major issues like the growth of the drug culture are usually presented with more technical detail than the non-specialist can stand or with lurid alarmism. Here Critser condenses huge amounts of data and first ...
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Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises6 reviews
Richard A. Deyo, Donald L. Patrick
AMACOM, 2005
Factual medical info revealed
+ Burst Your "Trust in Health Care" Bubble
+ Obsession with Medical Advances
+ An overview of the drug and medical industries as a whole
+ The Perils of Rampant Medical Technoconsumption
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Prescription for Disaster5 reviews
Thomas Moore
Dell, 1999
Save Your Own Life - Listen To Thomas J Moore, Author
+ A potentially lifesaving book
+ Anyone who uses medicine must read this book
+ This is an important book !
+ Anyone over 30 should read this book for self preservation.
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Confessions of a Medical Heretic26 reviews
Robert Mendelsohn
McGraw-Hill, 1990
Wow.... It's like meditrix...
+ The Medical Heretic Still "Rules"!
+ Buy this book, it may save your life!
+ great book from an insider
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Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine50 reviews
John Abramson
Harper Perennial, 2005
From a pharmacist
+ Glad I ordered this book
+ Overdo$ed Is Right
+ Simply a must read
+ Sorting out medical knowledge from advertising
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The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox17 reviews
Peter R. Breggin
Da Capo Press, 2001
Facts everybody must know
+ Good book.
Dr. Peter R. Breggin's work is excellent. Drugs are KILLING many people before their "natural" time to die has come. Breggin can help persons to stop killing themselves with those horrible medications. Read the book and get better without drugs.
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Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle2 reviews
Mic Fitzpatrick
Routledge, 2000
Healthcare as coercive social policy
+ Amajor contribution to our ideas of health and disease
In the preface to this remarkable book Dr. Fitzpatrick describes breaking into the house of an elderly couple during a bitterly cold February. The couple had succumbed to a combination of infection and hypothermia. While waiting for the ambulance, Fitzpatrick, a primary care physician working in a ...
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And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life 6 reviews
Sharon R. Kaufman
Scribner, 2005
One of the most valuable books I've read this year
+ Be informed
+ A powerful book for students, caregivers, and families dealing with end of life stages
I am a medical ethicist, and as I read Kaufman's "And a Time to Die" I found myself thinking back to the hospital case consultations I've been involved in. Her observations and conclusions helped me to piece together a much more detailed picture of what's really going on in those situations. Her ...
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