Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering


	Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering

Lvaman

12-10-2007 8:11 PM

156 views

tags:

health, disease, sales, profits, sickness

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Blocking Universal Health Care is Key to G...

Why US health care costs so much

Is your workout wasting your time?

We have to block health care reform becaus...

Margaret Sanger on Her Agenda

New Study: Travel is no safer now than in ...

More clips from Lvaman

Paris Hilton

VOTERS FEAR

Four days later, the president won re-elec...

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from December 10, 2007

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/29648011-8726-4b37-bc95-2a778b20629b/53C6872E-A1CA-4EE0-B71F-A51A6CC736EF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7342/886?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Selling+Sickness&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1133300613623_21776&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=1" href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7342/886?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Selling+Sickness&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1133300613623_21776&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bmj.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7342/886?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Selling+Sickness&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1133300613623_21776&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=1"><STRONG><FONT size="+1">Summary points</FONT></STRONG>
<P>
</P><DL compact="">
<DT></DT><DD><HR width="99%" align="left" />Some forms of "medicalisation" may now be better described as
"disease mongering"<IMG border="0" align="bottom" alt="---" src="http://www.bmj.com/math/12pt/normal/mdash.gif" />extending the boundaries of treatable illness
to expand markets for new products
</DD><DT></DT><DD><HR width="99%" align="left" />Alliances of pharmaceutical manufacturers, doctors, and patients groups
use the media to frame conditions as being widespread and severe
</DD><DT></DT><DD><HR width="99%" align="left" />Disease mongering can include turning ordinary ailments into medical
problems, seeing mild symptoms as serious, treating personal problems
as medical, seeing risks as diseases, and framing prevalence estimates
to maximise potential markets
</DD><DT></DT><DD><HR width="99%" align="left" />Corporate funded information about disease should be replaced by
independent information</DD></DL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7342/886?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Selling+Sickness&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1133300613623_21776&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=1"><STRONG><FONT color="#cc0000">Selling</FONT></STRONG> <STRONG><FONT color="#cc0000">sickness</FONT></STRONG>: the pharmaceutical industry and disease
mongering</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/53C6872E-A1CA-4EE0-B71F-A51A6CC736EF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from Lvaman

Today's Top Clips