A collection of articles on disease mongering in PLoS Medicine (2006)
Disease mongering is a pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses and aggressively promoting their public awareness in order to expand the markets for treatment.
Among the entities benefiting from selling and delivering treatments are pharmaceutical companies, physicians, alternative practitioners and other professional or consumer organizations. It is distinct from the promulgation of bogus or unrecognised diagnoses.
Diseasemongering is a pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses and aggressively promoting their public awareness...
or (pejoratively) "diseasemongering". Since medicalization is the social process through which a condition becomes a medical disease in need of treatment...
Medical Journal warned of inappropriate medicalization leading to diseasemongering, where the boundaries of the definition of illnesses are expanded...
social anxiety and conclude that many of them engage in diseasemongering by presenting the disease model of social anxiety as an incontrovertible fact by...
disorder is the name of a fake disease imagined for a health campaign to raise awareness of diseasemongering. The disease was first described in an effort...
while they paid less attention to more common dangers such as lifestyle diseases or traffic accidents. Fearmongering can produce a rally around the flag...
or better for the patient. There have been related accusations of diseasemongering (over-medicalising) to expand the market for medications. An inaugural...
Side Effects (2008) by Alison Bass Bad Pharma (2012) by Ben Goldacre Diseasemongering Ethics in pharmaceutical sales Inverse benefit law National pharmaceuticals...
Science-Based Medicine. Perls, T; Handelsman, DJ (April 2015). "Diseasemongering of age-associated declines in testosterone and growth hormone levels"...
increasing medicalization of human nature, very possibly attributable to diseasemongering by psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies, the power and influence...
Disease mongering Flesh monger, procurer for prostitution Gossip monger (a 'quidnunc') Merit-monger, in the 18th century a "do-gooder" Power monger Rumor...
Subish (25 July 2006). "Fairness Creams in South Asia—A Case of DiseaseMongering?". PLOS Medicine. 3 (7): e315. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030315. PMC 1518681...
and Alan Cassels about unnecessary health care. The work discusses diseasemongering. A summary in JAMA described the book as follows: The book is organized...
that market could be a force against the best use of medications. Diseasemongering – pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries...
Diseases, disorders, infections, and pathogens have appeared in fiction as part of a major plot or thematic importance. They may be fictional psychological...
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name conditions as indolent lesions of epithelial origin or IDLE. Diseasemongering False positive Medicalization Interventionism (medicine) Patient education...
and activist specializing in sexuality, and is a public critic of diseasemongering as it applies to sexual life and problems. Beginning with an Experimental...
quinquefasciatus". VectorBase. Archived from the original on 2010-07-18. Diseasemonger Identification guide at University of Florida NSW Arbovirus Surveillance...
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