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    Suzanne O Sullivan

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The Age of Diagnosis: Are Medical Labels Doing Us More Harm Than Good? - THE MUST-READ SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Suzanne O Sullivan

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Prose: non-fiction, Cognitive science, Health psychology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurosciences

The Sunday Times bestselling book about overdiagnosis from the neurologist and prize-winning author of It's All In Your Head.

'Revelatory. Slices through the contradictions that have tied me in knots.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

From autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions than ever before. But can a diagnosis do us more harm than good?

The 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 research, Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan overturns long held assumptions and reframes how we think about illness and health.

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Praise for The Age of Diagnosis: Are Medical Labels Doing Us More Harm Than Good? - THE MUST-READ SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

  • Covers so many topics that have been troubling me but I hadn't been able to resolve myself - as a parent and a clinician. An absolutely absorbing read

  • A brilliant study of the dangers of overdiagnosis... O'Sullivan is brave to take this subject on, and she hits the target. - The Guardian

  • Exceptional... Chapter by brilliant chapter, it raises fundamental questions we should all be asking when thinking about illness. - New Statesman

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