Disease mongering
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disease-mongering-223-2892033
title:
Disease mongering
text:
Disease mongering is a pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses and aggressively promoting their public awareness in order to expand the markets for treatment. Among the entities benefiting from selling and delivering treatments are pharmaceutical companies, physicians, alternative practitioners and other professional or consumer organizations. It is distinct from the promulgation of bogus or unrecognised diagnoses.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Pejorative term for expanding a disease's market for treatment
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_mongering
date created:
2005-10-25T23:23:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T08:02:15Z
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