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Trent'anni fa Henry Gadsen, direttore della compagnia farmaceutica Merck, fece una dichiarazione sconcertante alla rivista Fortune: "Il nostro sogno è quello di produrre farmaci per le persone sane. Questo ci permetterebbe di vendere a chiunque". Quel sogno si è avverato. Le compagnie farmaceutiche stanno commercializzando la paura con l'intento di abbassare la soglia per la prescrizione delle cure e addirittura inventare nuove patologie. Ques...

Why wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right? Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. His "Seeking Sickness" takes us inside the world of medical screening, where well-meaning practitioners and a profit-motivated industry offer to save our lives by exploiting our fears. He writes that promoters of screening overpromise on its b...

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Alan Cassels traces the part played by ideology in international relations over the past two centuries. Starting with the French Revolution's injection of ideology into interstate politics, Cassels concludes by addressing present day preoccupations with the legacy of nationalist discontent left by the collapse of communism and the resurgence of religious fundamentalism in world politics. Cassels includes discussion of Marxism-Leninism, Fascism...

The Cochrane Collaboration... rivals the Human Genome Project in its potential implications for modern medicine." - C. David Naylor, The Lancet "How can we have a rational health service if we don't know which of the things being done in it are useful and which are useless or possibly even harmful?" - Archie Cochrane, in Effectiveness and Efficiency, 1972 What's hocus-pocus and what really works? In the complex, ever-evolving realm of mode...

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In October 1922 Mussolini became the constitutional head of the Italian government, by late 1926 he had imposed a Fascist dictatorship on Italy. Professor Cassels, who argues that Mussolini's policies in the 1930s, the era of the Rome- Berlin axis, were foreshadowed by those of the 1920s, traces the stages by which Mussolini took control of Italy's foreign relations.Within the period 1922-1927, Mussolini, biased against democratic states, move...