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Anthropologists and their Jobs At the University of Cologne is a interesting study (in german, but completely online) from Michael Bollig und Christoph Brumann about how the chances are finding a job in anthropology and what former students actually are working. It's not new (from 1997), and well known, I guess, but anyhow interesting. And don't forget the event about this topic in Munich in two days (we already reported!). ... Link (0 comments) ... Comment Dept. of ethnologica, kerlone, January 14, 2003 at 12:31:39 PM CET The Making of a Disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction 
Yesterday we were discussing in a course about cultural influences: Are cultures importing foreign cultures by theirself, or is it more that the western cultures (and mainly the industry) is pressing new ways of living to other cultures, to find a new market (McDonaldization).
Now I found very interesting example, in which the industry, in this case the pharma-industry, is accused of constructing a whole disease, and this time not even in foreign waters.
The British Medical Journal published an article by the Washington-based journalist Ray Moynihan that accused the drug industry of creating a new disease – female sexual dysfunction – so that it could profit from drugs to treat it, writes The Independent. Today also the german Süddeutsche was reporting in a huge article.
This was what I said: Influence by the industry is not a thing only "stupid natives" are affected by. We, same stupid, are also affected from that influence. And we also managed to live with that.
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