Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering
Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering
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DOI：
10.1136/bmj.324.7342.886
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发表时间：
2002-04-13
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Henry, D
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作者：
Moynihan, R;Heath, I;Henry, D
很多钱可以从那些认为自己生病的健康人身上赚到。制药公司赞助疾病，并向处方者和消费者推销这些疾病。Ray Moynihan， Iona Heath和David Henry列举了“疾病贩子”的例子，并建议如何防止这种行为的发展。告诉健康的人他们生病了可以赚很多钱。将日常生活医疗化的某些形式现在可能被更好地描述为疾病贩子：扩大可治疗疾病的界限，以便为那些销售和提供治疗的人扩大市场。12 .制药公司积极参与赞助疾病的定义，并向处方者和消费者宣传这些定义。疾病的社会建构正在被疾病的企业建构所取代。
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 practiceThere's a lot of money to be made from telling healthy people they're sick. Some forms of medicalising ordinary life may now be better described as disease mongering: widening the boundaries of treatable illness in order to expand markets for those who sell and deliver treatments. 1 2 Pharmaceutical companies are actively involved in sponsoring the definition of diseases and promoting them to both prescribers and consumers. The social construction of illness is being replaced by the corporate construction of disease.