{"id":21003,"date":"2015-08-25T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/?p=21003"},"modified":"2015-08-26T18:47:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T16:47:47","slug":"disease-mongering-come-farci-sentire-malati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/disease-mongering-come-farci-sentire-malati\/","title":{"rendered":"Disease mongering: how to make us feel &quot;sick&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.med.nyu.edu\/highschoolbioethics\/sites\/default\/files\/highschoolbioethics\/pill_man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"179\" \/>Disease mongering: this is how Big Brother, the one told by George Orwell in 1984, enters people&#039;s minds to persuade them to buy new medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Literally the phenomenon is called: commodification of the disease. An extreme practice developed by marketing strategists and applied to the pharmaceutical galaxy. Diagnosis of disorders due to behavioral anomalies such as shyness, lowering the peak values of diabetes and that&#039;s it: the number of patients increases. We even get to invent new diseases to produce new drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Through this mechanism people are persuaded that problems previously accepted as inconvenience or part of life, must <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/consumismo-141212045510-conversion-gate01\/95\/consumismo-sanitario-disease-mongering-esmpio-nativity-2-638.jpg?cb=1418360253\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"206\" \/>cause concern and require medical attention. Already thirteen years ago, in 2002, the British Medical Journal published the International classification of non-diseases: 200 conditions wrongly considered pathological.<\/p>\n<p>The first ten on the list are emblematic: ageing, work, boredom, tear sacs, ignorance, baldness, freckles, protruding ears, grey\/white hair, ugliness. According to research, half of the pharmaceutical products on the market today are useless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"td-post-author-name\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/quellichelafarmacia.com\/author\/admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Editorial board<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/quellichelafarmacia.com\/23103\/disease-mongering-il-grande-fratello-entra-nelle-nostre-menti-e-ci-fa-sentire-malati\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 25, 2015 \u2013 those chepharmacy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"td-post-author-name\">Related news:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blitzquotidiano.it\/salute\/inventare-malattie-per-vendere-farmaci-il-disease-mongering-2257625\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inventing diseases to sell drugs: disease mongering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-author-name\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pane-rose.it\/files\/index.php?c3:o47208:e1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Class struggle is good for health<\/a><\/span> The drug lords are looking for profit maximization. The road is often opened by<strong>pharmaceutical representative<\/strong>, which bribes the prescribing doctor with bribes and benefits, with the effect of distortion, but that is not the main aspect of the matter. Corruption is a downstream phenomenon. Upstream there is the systematic distortion of scientific knowledge. A lot of money can be made by telling healthy people that they are sick\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cervelliamo.blogspot.it\/2015\/08\/nuove-malattie-con-l-arrivo-del-disease.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NEW DISEASES WITH THE ARRIVAL OF DISEASE MONGERING<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disease mongering: ecco come il Grande Fratello, quello raccontato da George Orwell in 1984, entra nelle menti delle persone per persuaderli a comprare nuovi medicinali. Letteralmente il fenomeno si chiama: mercificazione della malattia. Una pratica estrema messa a punto dagli strateghi del marketing ed applicata alla galassia farmaceutica. Diagnosi di disturbi per presente anomalie del &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,54,26],"class_list":["post-21003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notizie","tag-big-pharma","tag-marketing","tag-spesa-farmaceutica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21003","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}