Disease mongering is a pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses and aggressively promoting their public awareness...

or (pejoratively) "disease mongering". Since medicalization is the social process through which a condition becomes a medical disease in need of treatment...

Medical Journal warned of inappropriate medicalization leading to disease mongering, where the boundaries of the definition of illnesses are expanded...

disorder is the name of a fake disease imagined for a health campaign to raise awareness of disease mongering. The disease was first described in an effort...

or legislative role in stigmatising certain behavior or promoting disease mongering. The medicalisation of sexuality has also been used to advance the...

or better for the patient. There have been related accusations of disease mongering (over-medicalising) to expand the market for medications. An inaugural...

social anxiety and conclude that many of them engage in disease mongering by presenting the disease model of social anxiety as an incontrovertible fact by...

called "schooliosis" by some academics. Schooliosis is a type of disease mongering. Preventive medical screening in school or college may lead to an...

while they paid less attention to more common dangers such as lifestyle diseases or traffic accidents. Fearmongering can produce a rally around the flag...

Side Effects (2008) by Alison Bass Bad Pharma (2012) by Ben Goldacre Disease mongering Ethics in pharmaceutical sales Inverse benefit law National pharmaceuticals...