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Promoting diseases to promote drugs -- the role of pharmaceutical industry in fostering good and bad medicalization

2021-03-08

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Pharmaceutical industry and drugs advertisement is sometimes accused of “creating diseases”. This article assesses and describes the role of that industry in fostering medicalization. First, the notions of medicalization and pharmaceuticalization are defined. Then, the problem of distinguishing between harmful overmedicalization and well-founded medicalization is presented. Next, the phenomenon of disease mongerin...

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dba50132-0c17-5a49-8e4e-8a39e13bf171
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10.22541/au.161519394.47662490/v1
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