We're All Manic: The Selling of Bipolar Disorder
PLoS medicine has a great, great, great series of articles out 
today on, well, as you can see, "disease mongering." Among the more controversial articles is a piece by David Healy on the increasing diagnosis of mood disorder. He attacks his favorite company, and there's been lots of discussion of a piece published on the role of David Healy in similar debates about antidepressants. But the piece in PLoS is the most pointed critique of mood disorder marketing yet to appear in the literature.
today on, well, as you can see, "disease mongering." Among the more controversial articles is a piece by David Healy on the increasing diagnosis of mood disorder. He attacks his favorite company, and there's been lots of discussion of a piece published on the role of David Healy in similar debates about antidepressants. But the piece in PLoS is the most pointed critique of mood disorder marketing yet to appear in the literature.
