Question

Think about the following conditions, which are commonly diagnosed and treated in today’s society:

• Hypertension
• High Cholesterol
• Obesity
• Pre-Menstrual Syndrome
• Repetition Strain Injury
• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Restless Leg Syndrome
• Prostate Cancer Screening
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Social Phobia
• Erectile Dysfunction

Pick one of the above mentioned conditions to think about.

1. Do you think it fits the category of disease mongering or selling sickness? Why? Why not?

500 words

Answer 1

Disease mongering is a diagnostic boundary of illness to promote public awareness to expand the treatment.
Hypertension
Hypertension considers as a risk factor. but the cost of disease expands the market and makes it high. doctors play a major role in disease mongering. empowering patients and educating them to make correct decisions is important.
Pharmaceutical companies' impact on treatment, develop and publishing medicine to prevent hypertension and its symptoms it recoups their investment and reward for shareholders. Market prescription drugs have direct contact with customers as a legal practice in the U.S and some other countries that avoid their sufferings and death. Disease mongering important for hypertension and other long term illness that convince people to become ill and sick. For diagnosing a disease changing the metric is a new and reliable technique for pharmaceutical companies. example: 120/80 considered normal blood pressure, but now it is considered as a pre-hypertension. It invented as a new disease to extend a name factor fashion on drug high profitability. selling sickness considered ourselves sicker from mild sickness and become medicalized. Diagnostic boundaries broadened to be harder to make it normal. it is subjective and expandable diagnostic categories.