Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals
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Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals

How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction

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Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals

How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction

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Against a backdrop of virtual intercourse, online porn, and burgeoning Viagra sales, Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals reveals how women's sexual difficulties are being repackaged as symptoms of a new disorder. In this compelling book, award-winning journalist Ray Moynihan teams up with drug assessment specialist Barbara Mintzes to investigate the creation of female sexual dysfunction or FSD, and the marketing machine that promises to "cure" it.The authors go inside the corridors of medical power to visit drug company–sponsored scientific meetings and medical education events where doctors are being trained to see women's sexual problems as the symptoms of FSD — a pharmaceutically treatable condition. Moynihan and Mintzes explore the underlying causes of sexual dissatisfaction among women and expose how global drug companies exploit those problems in an attempt to create the next billion dollar disease.

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Publisher
Greystone Books
Year
2010
ISBN
9781553656524
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
General Health

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Introduction: Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals
  8. 1: Difficulties or dvsfunctions?
  9. 2: 43 Per Cent
  10. 3: Measuring Pleasure
  11. 4: Educating Doctors With Ski Trips and Strip Clubs
  12. 5: Viagra Turns Twelve
  13. 6: Premature Prescriptions
  14. 7: Undoing the Disorders
  15. 8: Looking Ahead
  16. Acknowledgements
  17. Notes
  18. Index