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Book List - Medical/psychiatric abuse
Updated May 13, 2007

"In fact, statistics indicate that about 10,000 Canadians die each year as the result of medical errors made in hospitals."
- Chestnut Publishing Group re: Susan McIver's book Medical Nightmares: The Human Face of Errors

Medical errors kill thousands - U.S. Health programs told to tighten procedures to reduce mistakes
Newspaper article The Hamilton Spectator December 8, 1999
"The wave of attention to medical errors comes one week after an Institute of Medicine report found that preventable mistakes kill 44,000 to 98,000 people a year and add $17 billion to $29 billion to America's health bill." [But the issue] "is about far more than dollars or statistics, it's about the toll that such errors take on people's lives and on their faith in our health care system," Clinton said.

In The Name of Help a novel exposing psychiatric abuse
by Diane Klein
ISBN 0-9678552-0-9
In the tradition of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
A chilling expose of the all-too-common savage abuses of psychiatric treatment.
Diane Klein's research took her inside many mental institutions, and through volumes of
terrifying data. These discoveries led her to write the book In The Name of Help.

"Although fiction, In The Name of Help has the loud ring of truth [about] psychiatric atrocities
which are continuing today in virtually every 'mental health' facility in the United States and Canada.
Klein has made an important contribution to our continuing struggle against psychiatric fascism and for human rights." - Don Weitz,
Radio Producer and Coeditor of Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada

Now available at the Hamilton Public Library!

Overdosed America : The Broken Promise of American Medicine
by John Abramson
ISBN 0060568526
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It
by Marcia Angell, M.D.
ISBN 0-375-50846-5
"The pharmaceutical industry claims to be a high-risk business, but year after year, drug companies have higher profits than those in any other industry - by a long shot."
Contrary to popular belief, big drug companies spend far less on research and development than on marketing."
"Drug companies promote disease to match their drugs."
"Drug companies have substantial control over clinical trials of their drugs."
- Randon House, New York
Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills
by Jorg Blech
ISBN 0-415-39071-0
Toxic Psychiatry
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
ISBN 0-312-11366-8
Dr. Peter Breggin, described as "the conscience of American psychiatry,"* speaks out on why therapy, empathy, and love must replace the drugs, electroshock, and biochemical theories of the "New Psychiatry." - *Bertram P. Karon
Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications.
by Peter R. Breggin M.D. and David Cohen Ph.D.
ISBN 0738203483

The War Against Children: How the drugs, programs, and theories of the psychiatric establishment are threatening America's children with a medical 'cure' for violence.
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. and Ginger Ross Breggin
ISBN 9998606411

They Say You're Crazy: How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal
by Paula J. Caplan, M.D.
ISBN 0201407582
Paula Caplan says it's sometimes frightening how psychiatric diagnoses are invented ... how "subjective, political and personal agenda are dressed up in the lab coats of science and offered to the public as truth."* - Bettie Bradley What if they say you're crazy? Article in You Magazine's Winter 1995 issue
The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers (Publicaffairs Reports)
by Katharine Greider
ISBN 1586481851
On The Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health
by Jerome Kassirer
ISBN 0195176847

Making Us Crazy - DSM: The Psychiatric Bible And The Creation Of Mental Disorders
by Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk
ISBN 0-684-82280-6
"Few mental health books are as provocative and will be as widely discussed as Making Us Crazy. This insightful and lively book describes the political struggles that surround the decisions about what goes into the APA's psychiatric bible and explains why we should all feel uneasy about psychiatry's attempt to define more and more behaviours as mental disorders." - Richard L. Edwards, Ph.D., Dean And Professor, School of Social Work,
The University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

The Medical Mafia: How to get out of it and take back our health & wealth
by Guylaine Lanctot, M.D.
ISBN 0964412608
Medical Nightmares: The Human Face of Errors
by Sussan B. McIver
ISBN 1-894601-02-5
"Written by a coroner, this book contains lifesaving lessons and recommendations on what can be done to reduce the incidence of these often preventable tragedies."
-Chestnut Publishing Group
Cured to Death: The Effects of Prescription Drugs
by Arabella Melville & Colin Johnson
ISBN 0-8128-2889-5
"In the United States it has been calculated that more people are killed each year by prescribed drugs than by accidents on the road. This important book demonstrates that Western medicine has made a fundamental error in allowing itself to become reliant on the univeral use of drug therapy."
- Stein and Day Publishers

Prescription for Disaster: The Hidden Dangers In Your Medicine Cabinet
by Thomas J. Moore
ISBN 0-684-82998-3
"Tom Moore is simply the best medical writer in America today. This book should make everybody do more than read the label before the next pill. We should begin asking questions about how those pills got on the shelf in the first place." - Seymour M. Hersh
Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients
by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
ISBN 1560256974

Safety Last: The Failure of the Consumer Health Protection System in Canada
by Nicholas Regush
ISBN 1-55013-462-0
"In Safety Last, author Nicholas Regush explodes the comfortable myth that government agencies protect the health and safety of Canadians by stringently reviewing new medical and pharmaceutical products. In fact, Regush demonstrates that the Health Protection Branch is in a mess. The research of competent scientists is frequently ignored, funds for proper screening are regularly cut back, and senior managers systematically pursue policies intended to please industry."
- Key Porter Books Ltd.
Psychiatry: The Ultimate Betrayal
by Bruce Wiseman
ISBN 0964890909
"Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal tracks this destructive force from its historical beginnings, lays bare its web of influence, and reveals the actions we must take to survive as a society. Once you understand what happened, and why, the world will never look the same to you again. And once you understand why it is still happening, you will want to do something about it. Now you can. Yes, our world is in trouble, but you can help it." (back cover)

Worst Pills, Best Pills: A Consumer's Guide to Avoiding Drug-Induced Death or Illness
by Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., Larry D. Sasich, Pharm.D., M.P.H., Rose-Ellen Hope, R.Ph., and Public Citizen's Health Research Group
ISBN 0-671-01918-X
"Worst Pills, Best Pills gives you the information you need to become actively involved in caring for yourself- by asking your doctor smart questions about the drugs prescribed for you.
It offers chapters on adverse drug reactions, alphabetical indexes listing pills by their brand and generic names, new information about commonly used drugs, guidelines for helping you to say "no" if your doctor prescribes a drug you should not take, and safer alternative choices. Worst Pills, Best Pills also includes startling information about certain drugs that can actually CAUSE depression, hallucinations or psychoses, sexual dysfunction, dementia, auto accidents, insomnia, parkinsonism, and more."
-Pocket Books

Check out Health Canada's Canadian Adverse Reactions Newsletter (quarterly online publication)