Book & web reviews

Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo, Ian Harris (2016)

Between the Lines, Marya Zilberberg (2012)

Effectiveness and Efficiency, Archibald Cochrane (1972)

How Much is Enough: Money and the Good Life, Robert and Edward Skidelsky (2012)

The Medicalization of Society, Peter Conrad (2007)

Stabbed in the Back, Nortin Hadler (2009)

Overtreated: why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer, Shannon Brownlee (2009)

Bad Pharma: how drug companies are misleading doctors and harming patients, Ben Goldacre (2012)

Overdiagnosed: making people sick in the pursuit of health, H Gilbert Welch (2011)

Limits to Medicine. Medical Nemesis: the Expropriation of Health, Ivan Illich (1975)

Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society, Nortin Hadler (2011)

Meaning, Medicine and the Placebo Effect, Daniel Moerman (2002)

The Wisdom of the Body, Walter Cannon (1939)

Skeptical Medicine (website)

The Great Cholesterol Myth, Jonny Bowden and Stephen Sinatra (2012)

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman (2011)

The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage or Nemesis? Thomas McKeown (1979)

The Doctor's Guide to Critical Appraisal, Narinder and Gurpal Gossall (2012)

Testing Treatments, I Evans, H Thornton, I Chalmers and P Glasziou (2011)