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Selling sickness how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients

A controversial and provocative look at the way pharmaceutical companies are creating and marketing illness.

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  • "Selling sickness"@it
  • "Selling sickness"

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  • "Trent'anni fa Henry Gadsen, direttore della compagnia farmaceutica Merck, fece una dichiarazione sconcertante alla rivista Fortune: "Il nostro sogno è quello di produrre farmaci per le persone sane. Questo ci permetterebbe di vendere a chiunque". Quel sogno si è avverato. Le compagnie farmaceutiche stanno commercializzando la paura con l'intento di abbassare la soglia per la prescrizione delle cure e addirittura inventare nuove patologie. Questo volume rivela come i cambiamenti d'umore si sono trasformati in disordini mentali, la timidezza in un Disturbo Sociale Ansiogeno, i bambini vivaci ora hanno la Sindrome da Deficit di Attenzione e il fatto di essere "a rischio" di una patologia è diventato esso stesso una malattia."
  • "A controversial and provocative look at the way pharmaceutical companies are creating and marketing illness."@en
  • "In this hard-hitting indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, Ray Moynihan and Allan Cassels show how drug companies are systematically using their dominating influence in the world of medical science, drug companies are working to widen the very boundaries that define illness. Mild problems are redefined as serious illness, and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Runny noses are now allergic rhinitis, PMS has become a psychiatric disorder, and hyperactive children have ADD. Selling Sickness reveals how expanding the boundaries of illness and lowerin."@en
  • "'Selling Sickness' reveals how widening the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits, in turn threatening to bankrupt national healthcare systems all over the world."
  • "Argues that pharmaceutical companies are creating and marketing illness in order to improve their sales and profits, revealing the marketing strategies they use to influence medical science and re-define the boundaries of illness."@en

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  • "Selling sickness : how the world's biggest pharmeutical companies are turning us all into patients"
  • "Selling sickness how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients"@en
  • "Selling Sickness How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All Into Patients"@en
  • "药祸 = Selling sickness : how the drug companies are turning us all into patients"
  • "Medicamentos que nos enferman e industrias farmacéuticas que nos convierten en pacientes"
  • "Selling sickness : how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us into patients"
  • "Selling sickness : how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients"
  • "Selling sickness : how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients"@en
  • "Selling sickness"@en
  • "Selling sickness"
  • "Medicamentos que nos enferman : e industrias farmacéuticas que nos convierten en pacientes"@es
  • "Satılık hastalıklar"@tr
  • "Satılık hastalıklar"
  • "Krošnjarji z boleznijo : kako farmacevtske velikanke delajo iz nas bolnike"@sl
  • "Krošnjarji z boleznijo : kako farmacevtske velikanke delajo iz nas bolnike"
  • "Selling sickness : how the drug companies are turning us all into patients"@en
  • "Selling sickness : how the drug companies are turning us all into patients"
  • "Chilbyŏng pʻanmaehak = Selling sickness"
  • "Farmaci che ammalano : e case farmaceutiche che ci trasformano in pazienti"
  • "질병판매학 = Selling sickness"
  • "Yao huo = Selling sickness : how the drug companies are turning us all into patients"
  • "질병 판매학"
  • "Selling sickness : how drug companies are turning us all into patients"
  • "Selling sickness : how drug companies are turning us all into patients"@en
  • "Prodavanje bolesti : kako nas farmaceutska industrija pretvara u pacijente"
  • "药祸"
  • "Yao huo"
  • "Chilbyŏng p'anmaehak = Selling sickness"
  • "Selling Sickness"@en
  • "Selling sickness how drug companies are turning us all into patients"@en
  • "Selling sickness how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us into patients"
  • "Farmaci che ammalano e case farmaceutiche che ci trasformano in pazienti"@it
  • "Medicamentos que nos enferman : y industrias farmacéuticas que nos convierten en pacientes"

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