Books Openly Critical of Conventional Medicine

There are a growing number of books that are critical of ConMed.

No-one needs to imagine that the news and views expressed in this blog about the dangers and ineffectiveness of conventional medicine is a subject that has not been widely discussed, and intensively investigated.

It is just that no such investigation has been by those who we rely upon (mistakenly) for information on matters of health - the Government, the NHS, and the Conventional Medical Establishment. Nor does our mainstream Media, for its own reasons, get involved in these matters, thereby letting us all down.

Here are just a few of these texts - the one's I have read.

The Failure of Conventional Medicine (free to read E-Book)

Steve Scrutton

The e-book asks the questions - why do we spend so much on the NHS and face so much illness and disease. The answer is in the title - the failure of conventional medicine.
http://s-scrutton.co.uk/Failure_ConMed/Introduction.html

Anatomy of an Epidemic. Magic bullets, Psychiartic Drgs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Robert Whittaker
This book 'investigates a medical mystery': Why has the number of adults and children disabled by mental illness skyrocketed over the past fifty years? The answer is, of course, ConMed drugs! http://robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitaker.org/Anatomy%20of%20an%20Epidemic.html

Pharmageddon

David Healy

Pharmageddon has been defined as "the prospect of a world in which medicines and medicine produce more ill-health than health, and when medical progress does more harm than good". We see the need to investigate and explore that risk and to identify the factors and features that describe it.

http://www.socialaudit.org.uk/60700716.htm

Dirty Medicine: The Handbook

Martin J Walker

This is Martin Walker’s 20 year follow up to his book Dirty Medicine: Science, big business and the assault on natural health care. He gives a full and detailed picture of the vested interests, their personalities, organisations and ideas that have shaped the present attack on alternatives in the field of health. "With alternative medicine under attack on all fronts, The Handbook gives us the knowledge with which to defend ourselves and fight back.

http://www.slingshotpublications.com/dmhandbook.html

Silenced Witness: the parents story. The denial of vaccine damage by Government, Corporations and the Media. 

A book written by parents.

http://www.slingshotpublications.com/silenced.html

Prescription for Injury: the politics of Pharmaceutical Manufacture, Regulation and Prescription.

Colin Downes-Granger

This book examines the history of Benzodiazepine drugs, and the long-term damage done to patients, including the experience of the author himself.

Sacred Spark

Lisa K. Sykes

"Sacred Spark is the compelling true story of a child affected by mercury-poisoning and his minister-mother's decade-long battle to restore the light in his eyes". 

http://shop.sacredsparkbook.com/product.sc?productId=1

HRT: Licensed to Kill and Maim

Martin J Walker

A critique of Hormone Replacement Therapy

http://www.slingshotpublications.com/hrt.html

A Shot in the Dark: why the DPT vaccination may be hazardous to your child's health
Harris L Coulter, Barbara Loe Fisher 
Although published in 1991, the DPT vaccination is still universally used in this country
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/coulter.html

Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality: the medical assault on the American brain
Harris L Coulter (published in 1990)
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/coulter5.html

It Makes You Sick: The politics of the NHS
Colin Thunhurst
Pluto Press 1982

The Health Scandal: your health in crisis
Vernon Coleman
Mandarin (1988)

Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: the expropriation of health
Ivan Illich
Pelican (1976)
Yes, it goes back this far! Illich introduced the concept of Iatrogenic disease - doctor-caused disease.

If you know of a book you would like me to publish in this list, please let me know.