Disease mongering is a pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses, and promoting public awareness of such, in order to expand the markets for those who sell and deliver treatments, which may include pharmaceutical companies, physicians, and other professional or consumer organizations. Examples include male-type baldness and certain social phobias.

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  • Disease mongering is a pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses, and promoting public awareness of such, in order to expand the markets for those who sell and deliver treatments, which may include pharmaceutical companies, physicians, and other professional or consumer organizations. Examples include male-type baldness and certain social phobias. In discussions specifically about the validity of psychiatry, the term is frequently also used by proponents of the antipsychiatry movement and Scientology based critics to discredit psychiatry, neurobiological disorders, and the medications used for treatment. Examples include ADHD and bipolar disorder. Proponents of this practice argue that the pharmaceutical industry is only providing the public with information about its options and that actual prescription is a matter to be discussed between patient and doctor. Opponents, however, claim that this approach leads to the unnecessary prescription of drugs, that its motivation is only to profit the drug companies, and that it may actually harm instead of help patients. A 2006 Newcastle, New South Wales conference, reported in PLoS Medicine, explored the phenomenon further Journalist Ray Moynihan satirised it in a BMJ "news" item that appeared in its April Fool's Day edition 2006, titled "Scientists find new disease: motivational deficiency disorder".
  • Disease Mongering (deutscher Begriff Krankheitserfindung) bezeichnet ein unzulässiges Zuordnen normaler Lebensabläufe oder individueller Mängel wie etwa eine Glatzenbildung bei Männern zu therapiebedürftigen Krankheiten.
  • L'espressione disease-mongering o mercificazione della malattia indica un'operazione di marketing finalizzata all'introduzione di un farmaco già pronto per l'immissione nel mercato attraverso una campagna pubblicitaria finalizzata all'introduzione di quadri clinici al di fuori della seduta medica per indurre il consumatore alla ricerca di un rimedio per specifiche malattie.. Copertina di una collezione di articoli sull'argomento pubblicati sul Public Library of Science - Medicine
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  • Disease mongering is a pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses, and promoting public awareness of such, in order to expand the markets for those who sell and deliver treatments, which may include pharmaceutical companies, physicians, and other professional or consumer organizations. Examples include male-type baldness and certain social phobias.
  • Disease Mongering (deutscher Begriff Krankheitserfindung) bezeichnet ein unzulässiges Zuordnen normaler Lebensabläufe oder individueller Mängel wie etwa eine Glatzenbildung bei Männern zu therapiebedürftigen Krankheiten.
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  • Disease mongering
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  • Disease-mongering
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