I heard Mr. Moynihan interviewed this morning about this new(ish) book. He really rang the 'right on' bell with me. So many people, it seems, are sick these days; sick with things that are just part of the ups and downs of life. But there's no money to be made by people being resiliant and resourceful in dealing with their various ills. So therefore we have diseases and their various and sundry pharmaceutical cures 'rolled out' like this years new cars. I turned up this article from Vaccination News about the book. Thought I'd pass it along. There's a whole lot of mongering going on these days. Without greed, fear and addiction Capitalism would fall apart from it's own absurdities...

Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering
by Ray Moynihan, journalist , Iona Heath, general practitioner , David Henry, professor of clinical pharmacology

"A lot of money can be made from healthy people who believe they are sick. Pharmaceutical companies sponsor diseases and promote them to prescribers and consumers. Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath, and David Henry give examples of "disease mongering" and suggest how to prevent the growth of this practice
There's a lot of money to be made from telling healthy people they're sick. Some forms of medicalising ordinary life may now be better described as disease mongering: widening the boundaries of treatable illness in order to expand markets for those who sell and deliver treatments. Pharmaceutical companies are actively involved in sponsoring the definition of diseases and promoting them to both prescribers and consumers. The social construction of illness is being replaced by the corporate construction of disease..." http://tinyurl.com/98ynp
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