{"id":12293,"date":"2008-06-03T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/dal-teatro-alla-scienza-e-sempre-disease-mongering\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:10:00","slug":"dal-teatro-alla-scienza-e-sempre-disease-mongering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/dal-teatro-alla-scienza-e-sempre-disease-mongering\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM THEATER TO SCIENCE IT&#039;S ALWAYS &quot;DISEASE MONGERING&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entryNav\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"entryTop\">\n<h2 align=\"center\">Posted by Emanuela Zerbinatti at 23:18 in <a rel=\"category noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/arteesalute.blogosfere.it\/medicina_e_arte\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medicine and art<\/a>, <a rel=\"category noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/arteesalute.blogosfere.it\/teatro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Theater<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <u><font size=\"3\">from<\/font> <\/u><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arteesalute.blogosfere.it\/2008\/05\/dal-teatro-alla-scienza-e-sempre-disease-mongering.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.arteesalute.blogosfere.it<\/a><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gads_container\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twrite_ads('468x60'); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ --> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> google_ad_client = \"pub-6724866249224006\"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = \"468x60_as\"; google_ad_type = \"text\"; google_ad_channel = \"\"; google_ui_features = \"rc:0\"; google_color_border = \"FFFFFF\"; google_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\"; google_color_link = \"AA0000\"; google_color_text = \"333333\"; google_color_url = \"AA0000\"; var gads_color = getADSColor(); google_color_link = gads_color; google_color_url = gads_color; <\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"entryBody\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arteesalute.blogosfere.it\/images\/Disease%20mongering.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"260\" alt=\"Disease mongering.gif\" hspace=\"2\" width=\"180\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/arteesalute.blogosfere.it\/images\/Disease%20mongering-thumb.gif\" \/><\/a><font size=\"2\"><em>&quot;The only way to defend yourself against &quot;disease mongering&quot; is to know about it&quot;<\/em>. This is the conclusion they had come to <strong>Ray Moynihan<\/strong> And <strong>David Henry<\/strong>, respectively journalist and pharmacologist of the University of Newcastle (Australia), in the<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/medicine.plosjournals.org\/perlserv\/?request=get-document&amp;doi=10.1371\/journal.pmed.0030191\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><strong><font color=\"#ffae00\">editorial<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a> of the special number that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/medicine.plosjournals.org\/perlserv\/?request=index-html&amp;issn=1549-1676\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><em><strong><font color=\"#ffae00\">Plos Medicines<\/font><\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/a> \u2013 a freely usable medical-scientific medical journal \u2013 had dedicated some time ago to this phenomenon. <em>&quot;Disease mongering&quot; \u2013 <\/em>which could be translated as &quot;diseases created by marketing&quot;<em> \u2013 transforms the healthy into sick, causes iatrogenic injuries and wastes precious resources, for the sole purpose of increasing the number of sick and potential customers in the market of those who sell and distribute drugs. It&#039;s a global problem that affects everyone involved in health&quot;<\/em>. Basically the art of creating the drug first and then the disease it is supposed to cure. This is a global problem, as the authors said, but it is not a modern-day phenomenon.<\/font> <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-more\" id=\"more\"><font size=\"2\">In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knock_ou_le_triomphe_de_la_m%C3%A9decine\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><strong><font color=\"#ffae00\">knock<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a>, a play written in 1923, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jules_Romains\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><strong><font color=\"#ffae00\">Jules Romains<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a> tells the story of a doctor who supports the infallibility of medicine and the effectiveness of commercial advertising who manages to induce the population of an entire country to undergo his treatments. In the sentence made to pronounce the protagonist <em>&quot;healthy people are sick who don&#039;t know they are&quot;<\/em> it contains all the thought of the most modern &quot;dealers of diseases&quot;. And even in medical-scientific journals there is no shortage of attempts to define and study the phenomenon, as well as<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pubblicato da Emanuela Zerbinatti alle 23:18 in Medicina e arte, Teatro&nbsp;&nbsp; da http:\/\/www.arteesalute.blogosfere.it&nbsp; &quot;L&#8217;unico modo per difendersi dal &quot;disease mongering&quot; &egrave; conoscerlo&quot;. &Egrave; questa la conclusione a cui erano giunti Ray Moynihan e David Hanry, rispettivamente giornalista e farmacologo dell&#8217;universit&agrave; di Newcastle (Australia), nell&#8217;editoriale del numero speciale che Plos Medicine &#8211; una rivista medica &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedaiisf-archivio-storico"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}