while all know medicine's power to harm individual patients and whole populations, presumably few would agree with Ivan Illich that "The medical establishment has become a major threat to health."1 Many might, however, accept the concept of the health eco
There's a lot of money to be made from telling healthy people they're sick. Some forms of medicalising ordinary life may now be better described as disease mongering: widening the boundaries of treatable illness in order to expand markets for those who se