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“Overdiagnosis” as a book category encompasses works that examine the modern medical tendency to label and treat conditions that would never have caused symptoms or harm. These titles explore how broader disease definitions, aggressive screening, ever-more-sensitive imaging and genetic tests, and commercial, legal, and cultural pressures can turn risk into disease and fuel diagnostic inflation. Through case studies—such as PSA testing for prostate cancer, mammography, thyroid nodules, incidental imaging findings, prediabetes, ADHD, and psychiatric labeling—authors detail the human, ethical, and economic costs of false positives, medicalization, and overtreatment. The books explain core ideas like lead-time and length bias, absolute versus relative risk, and the role of shared decision-making, while proposing reforms to “right-size” care, from better communication to de-implementation and policy change. Blending epidemiology, ethics, journalism, and patient stories, this category equips clinicians, policymakers, and the public to balance benefits and harms and pursue proportionate, evidence-based care.

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