Medicine & Health

Disease Mongering

Published May 24, 2018 Curated Collections

To mark the first academic meeting on disease mongering (the "selling of sickness" in order to promote drug sales), which was held in Newcastle, Australia in April 2006, and to help provoke and inform a response to the phenomenon, PLOS Medicine commissioned a special theme issue.

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Essays

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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030191

PLOS Medicine The Fight against Disease Mongering: Generating Knowledge for Action
April 11, 2006 Ray Moynihan, David Henry
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030146

PLOS Medicine Combating Disease Mongering: Daunting but Nonetheless Essential
April 11, 2006 Iona Heath
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030189

PLOS Medicine Pharmaceutical Marketing and the Invention of the Medical Consumer
April 11, 2006 Kalman Applbaum
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030185

PLOS Medicine The Latest Mania: Selling Bipolar Disorder
April 11, 2006 David Healy
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030178

PLOS Medicine Female Sexual Dysfunction: A Case Study of Disease Mongering and Activist Resistance
April 11, 2006 Leonore Tiefer
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030182

PLOS Medicine Medicine Goes to School: Teachers as Sickness Brokers for ADHD
April 11, 2006 Christine B Phillips
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030132

PLOS Medicine Bigger and Better: How Pfizer Redefined Erectile Dysfunction
April 11, 2006 Joel Lexchin

Policy Forums

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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030198

PLOS Medicine Disease Mongering in Drug Promotion: Do Governments Have a Regulatory Role?
April 11, 2006 Barbara Mintzes
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Chris Potter, Flickr

PLOS Medicine Cholinesterase Inhibitors: Drugs Looking for a Disease?
April 11, 2006 Marina Maggini, Nicola Vanacore, Roberto Raschetti
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030170

PLOS Medicine Giving Legs to Restless Legs: A Case Study of How the Media Helps Make People Sick
April 11, 2006 Steven Woloshin, Lisa M Schwartz

Correspondence

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Chris Potter, Flickr

PLOS Medicine Awareness and Attitudes about Disease Mongering among Medical and Pharmaceutical Students
April 11, 2006 C. Jairaj Kumar, Abhizith Deoker, Ashwini Kumar, Arunachalam Kumar, B. M Hegde