The Age of Diagnosis - Are Medical Labels Doing Us More Harm Than Good?

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Beschreibung:

THE MUST-READ BESTSELLER AND BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW SCIENTIST AND MORE

The award-winning doctor investigates whether diagnoses like ADHD and Long Covid do more harm than good

'Revelatory. Slices through the contradictions.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN
'So well-written... critically important.' - RANGAN CHATTERJEE
'A doctor's brilliant study of the dangers of overdiagnosis' - GUARDIANThe boundaries between sickness and health are being redrawn. Mental health categories are shifting and expanding all the time, radically altering what we consider to be 'normal'. Genetic tests can now detect pathologies decades before people experience symptoms, and sometimes before they're even born. And increased health screening draws more and more people into believing they are unwell.
An accurate diagnosis can bring greater understanding and of course improved treatment. But many diagnoses aren't as definitive as we think. And in some cases they risk turning healthy people into patients.
Drawing on the stories of real people, as well as decades of clinical practice and the latest medical research, Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan overturns long held assumptions and transforms how we think about illness and health.'Compassionate and bracingly independent thinking' - THE TIMES
'Exceptional. Chapter by brilliant chapter, it raises fundamental questions we should all be asking.' - NEW STATESMAN

*As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week, Today, Good Morning Britain, Sky News and more.*

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Über die Urheberinnen:

Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, first working at The Royal London Hospital and now as a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and for a specialist unit based at the Epilepsy Society. She specialises in the investigation of complex epilepsy and also has an active interest in psychogenic disorders. Suzanne's first book It's All in Your Head, won both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Royal Society of Biology Book Prize and The Sleeping Beauties was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. She is from Dublin, Ireland.

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Produktdetails:

• Autor:in: Suzanne O'Sullivan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.03.2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• Seitenumfang: 320 Seiten
• ISBN: 9781399727662