Index of topics
Every page on Manufactured Maladies, the addresses restored from this domain’s past, and the XML sitemap — in one index.
The disease-mongering idea
- Disease mongering: definition, tactics and examples
- What is disease mongering? A plain-language definition
- Disease mongering examples: ten widely cited cases
- The tactics of disease mongering: how a market is made
- Selling sickness: the idea behind disease mongering
- The 2006 Newcastle conference on disease mongering
Medicalization
- Medicalization: definition, examples and criticism
- What is medicalization? Definition and meaning
- Medicalization examples: from shyness to ageing
- The medicalization of deviance, explained
- Overmedicalisation: too much of a medical thing
- Is medicalization good or bad? The arguments on both sides
Overdiagnosis & overtreatment
- Overdiagnosis and overtreatment: definition and harms
- What is overdiagnosis? A plain definition
- Is ADHD overdiagnosed? What the debate is really about
- Overtreatment: when the cure carries its own risk
- The harms of screening: overdiagnosis you never needed
- Too much medicine: the movement against overdiagnosis
Pharmaceutical marketing
- Pharmaceutical marketing: how medicine is sold
- What is pharmaceutical marketing? An overview
- Disease awareness campaigns: education or advertising?
- Condition branding: giving a syndrome a marketable name
- Direct-to-consumer drug advertising, explained
- Medical marketing tactics that shape demand
Conditions under the microscope
- Manufactured conditions: the classic case studies
- Lifestyle drugs: treating life, not disease
- When a risk factor becomes a disease: prediabetes and prehypertension
- Female sexual dysfunction: anatomy of a diagnosis
- Social anxiety disorder and the marketing of shyness
The case for less medicine
- The case for less medicine: campaigns pushing back
- Choosing Wisely: questioning tests you may not need
- Quaternary prevention: protecting patients from too much medicine
- Preventing overdiagnosis: the science of not overdoing it
- Shared decision-making: choosing care with, not for, patients
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Restored addresses
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