Selling sickness : how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients /
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels.
- New York, NY : Nation Books, c2005.
- xviii, 254 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-241) and index.
Prologue: selling sickness -- Selling to everyone : high cholesterol -- Doughnuts for the doctors : depression -- Working with celebrities : menopause -- Partnering with patients : attention deficit disorder -- Making risks into medical conditions : high blood pressure -- Advertising disease : premenstrual dysphoric disorder -- Shaping public perceptions : social anxiety disorder -- Testing the markets : osteoporosis -- Taming the watchdogs : irritable bowel syndrome -- Subverting the selling : female sexual dysfunction -- Epilogue : What can we do?
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Pharmaceutical industry. Drugs--Marketing. Advertising--Drugs. Drug Industry. Marketing. Sociology, Medical. Primera Jornada de Conomiento. Medicamentos.