- Title
- Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering
- Creator
- Moynihan, Ray; Heath, Iona; Henry, David
- Relation
- British Medical Journal Vol. 324, p. 886-891
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.324.7342.886
- Publisher
- British Medical Journal Publishing Group
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2002
- Description
- A lot of money can be made from healthy people who believe they are sick. Pharmaceutical companies sponsor diseases and promote them to prescribers and consumers. Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath, and David Henry give examples of "disease mongering" and suggest how to prevent the growth of this practice
- Subject
- disease mongering; medicalisation; pharmaceutical industry
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27179
- Identifier
- uon:1439
- Identifier
- ISSN:0959-535X
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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