Selling Sickness: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Disease Mongering * Commentary: Medicalisation of risk factors -- Moynihan et al. 324 (7342): 886 -- BMJ
There'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 se
