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Selling Sickness

How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients

By Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels


As Wall Street knows, there's a lot of money to be made telling healthy people they're sick. Selling Sickness shows how the widening of the boundaries that define illness and the medicalization of everyday life are creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits for the world's largest drug companies.

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