Listerine's Long Shadow: Disease Mongering and the Selling of Sickness

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 379-385

  Dossey, Larry ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; CARBONIC ACID; LISTERINE; SILDENAFIL;

CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG COST; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPEPSIA; EDITORIAL; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HALITOSIS; HEADACHE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; MOUTHWASH; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINITIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADVERTISING; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PIPERAZINES; PURINES; SALICYLATES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SULFONES; TERPENES; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 33748420693     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2006.06.005     Document Type: Editorial

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