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The Age of Diagnosis

Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far

Author: Suzanne O’Sullivan  

The Age of Diagnosis
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An ambitious book about modern diagnosis from the neurologist and prize-winning author of It's All In Your Head.

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An ambitious book about modern diagnosis from the neurologist and prize-winning author of It's All In Your Head.

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'Slices through the confusion and the contradictions with grace, elegance and compassion. I really cannot say good enough things about it.' - 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 medical research, Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan overturns long held assumptions and reframes how we think about illness and health.

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Critic Reviews

The Age of Diagnosis slices through the confusion and the contradictions that have tied me in knots - both as a parent and as a clinician - with grace, elegance and compassion. It is scholarly, human but most importantly it's an absolutely absorbing read from start to finish. There are very few people who could write this so straightforwardly and yet with endless compassion. The book covers so many topics that have been troubling me but which I hadn't been able to resolve myself. I really cannot say good enough things about it. -- Chris van Tulleken, author of ULTRA-PROCESSED PEOPLE
O'Sullivan explodes conventional wisdom about medical diagnoses. She knows that having a diagnosis like austism, or ADHD, or depression, or Lyme disease, can give her patients relief at having an explanation. But she also invites us to wonder where these diagnoses came from. Are we overdiagnosing? Is this really the best strategy for helping people get better? With clarity of prose and reasoning, The Age of Diagnosis should make all of us think about whether we are more or less healthy when we receive a diagnostic label. -- Elizabeth F. Loftus, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine
In my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks. -- Sathnam Sanghera
Slices through the confusion and the contradictions with grace, elegance and compassion. I really cannot say good enough things about it. -- Chris van Tulleken, author of ULTRA-PROCESSED PEOPLE
With clarity of prose and reasoning, The Age of Diagnosis should make all of us think about whether we are more or less healthy when we receive a diagnostic label. -- Elizabeth F. Loftus, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine

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About the Author

Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, first working at The Royal London Hospital and now as a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and for a specialist unit based at the Epilepsy Society. She specialises in the investigation of complex epilepsy and also has an active interest in psychogenic disorders. Suzanne's first book It's All in Your Head, won both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Royal Society of Biology Book Prize and The Sleeping Beauties was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. She is from Dublin, Ireland.

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Product Details

Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Published
13th March 2025
Pages
320
ISBN
9781399727648

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