The Making of a Disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction

Dept. of ethnologica, kerlone, January 14, 2003 at 12:31:39 PM CET

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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gHack, January 14, 2003 at 12:35:02 PM CET

Did we manage to live with that? Or are we managed to live with that?

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kerlone, January 14, 2003 at 2:13:46 PM CET

Good question. I think everyone will see this different. Also do the natives.
However, this is a world wide problem, not only one the natives are confronted with , and they need or do not need help with that as much and as less as we do.

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kerlone, January 14, 2003 at 2:15:42 PM CET

Hey I like comments much more without header, by the way.

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