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Female sexual dysfunction: a case study of disease mongering and activist resistance.
Article in PLoS medicine, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Beyond the panacea: addressing the systemic failure in midlife female sexual health.Przeglad menopauzalny = Menopause review · 2026Review
- Addressing the Global Mental Health Crisis: How a Human Rights Approach Can Help End the Search for Pharmaceutical Magic Bullets.Health and human rights · 2025Article
- Association of sexual dysfunction according toSexual medicine · 2023Article
- Women and Men's Perspectives on the Factors Related to Women's Dyadic Sexual Desire, and on the Treatment of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Estimating the Prevalence of Sexual Function Problems: The Impact of Morbidity Criteria.Journal of sex research · 2016Article
- A biopsychosocial approach to women's sexual function and dysfunction at midlife: A narrative review.Maturitas · 2016Review
- Towards a genealogy of pharmacological practice.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2016Article
- The existing therapeutic interventions for orgasmic disorders: recommendations for culturally competent services, narrative review.Iranian journal of reproductive medicine · 2015Article
- The dominance of big pharma: power.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2013Article
- The paradox of mental health: over-treatment and under-recognition.PLoS medicine · 2013Article
- The uncanny, alienation and strangeness: the entwining of political and medical metaphor.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2011Article
- Disease mongering is now part of the global health debate.PLoS medicine · 2008Article
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- Disease mongering -- a challenge for everyone involved in healthcare.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2007Article
- The fight against disease mongering: generating knowledge for action.PLoS medicine · 2006Article
- Pharmaceutical marketing and the invention of the medical consumer.PLoS medicine · 2006Article
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