HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Disease Mongering, Fluoxetine, Drug Discovery
10 Sep 2018
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Since labels shape our behaviour and the way people act around us. If we"re promoting new disorders, it changes how we understand ourselves as human beings. Most of the new types of disorders we see are linked to pharmaceutical treatments. Some anti psychotic drugs can cause symptoms like involuntary movements in the face. The drug doesn"t heal someone but instead poses new problems. Its money that gets spent whether you actually pay for it or not. Obsessions about health "money to be made from a nation of hypochondiacs" this makes us look like that kind of society. Its easy to advertise to people who have health insecurities. People ca(cid:374)"t make rational decisions when it comes to their health. Therefore, some ads are banned because people are an easy target. Idea that all of our problems can be reduced to mechanisms occurring in our head. Drugs and epidemiology (prevalence rate of an illness)
