"Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals"
How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction
by Barbara Mintzes & Ray Moynihan
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A provocative exposé of the lucrative industry built around a newly constructed disorder.
Set against a backdrop of virtual intercourse, online porn, and burgeoning Viagra sales, this compelling new book reveals how women's sexual difficulties are being repackaged as symptoms of a new disease-female sexual dysfunction, or FSD. Award-winning journalist Ray Moynihan and drug assessment specialist Dr. Barbara Mintzes go inside the corridors of medical power to reveal how doctors, psychologists, and PR specialists are now working with global drug companies to promote awareness of this potentially lucrative condition and the drugs being hailed as its cure-all. Provocative and rigorous investigative journalism, Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals explores the controversy about whether common sexual difficulties should be treated as medical conditions like FSD, which may be a dangerous distraction from the real problems in sexual relationships. The book also offers practical information about the risks and benefits of the latest pills and canvasses other approaches to understanding common sexual problems.
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close this panel"""This book tells the truth about how Big Pharma profits from so-called FSD (female sexual dysfunction). It's an eye-opener."""
"""This book is a cautionary tale...the authors provide important details that connect the players. They help us understand why sexual medicine is a co-optable area that too easily converts women's legitimate complaints about unsatisfactory relationships into the need for drug treatment."""
"""This book is a cautionary tale...the authors provide important details that connect the players. They help us understand why sexual medicine is a co-optable area that too easily converts women's legitimate complaints about unsatisfactory relationships into the need for drug treatment."""
"""This book tells the truth about how Big Pharma profits from so-called FSD (female sexual dysfunction). It's an eye-opener."""
"""A large body of evidence, well documented by authors Moynihan and Mintzes, points to some fascinating relationships between medical research and marketing."""
"""A large body of evidence, well documented by authors Moynihan and Mintzes, points to some fascinating relationships between medical research and marketing."""
