Healthy Skepticism Library item: 18692

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Publication type: book

Moynihan R, Mintzes B
Sex, Lies, And Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan To Profit From Female Sexual Dysfunction Canada: D&M Publishers Incorporate 2010
http://www.borders.com.au/book/sex-lies-and-pharmaceuticals-how-drug-companies-plan-to-profit-from-female-sexual-dysfunction/8987535/

Abstract:

Against a backdrop of virtual intercourse, online porn, and burgeoning Viagra sales,Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticalsreveals 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.