Disease-mongering and public health
20 - 24 September 2010
Menorca, Spain
The course will aim to deepen students’ understanding of the public health problem of disease-mongering: the process of widening the boundaries of illness in order to expand markets for treatments.It will examine the different forms of disease-mongering, by using several case studies involving high-profile medical conditions. It will also employ humour, and students will create and promote their own new disease. Finally it will analyse the public-health implications of disease-mongering and possible policy-responses to the problem, from a range of perspectives.
The course will also look at the evidence about the financial relationships between health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry which are central to this problem, and reveal how those relationships are being renegotiated worldwide.
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