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The first goal of drug advertising is to define a category and convince people they have a disorder that no one had ever heard of before. Viagra invented "erect
by sgustard 6y ago
The first goal of drug advertising is to define a category and convince people they have a disorder that no one had ever heard of before. Viagra invented "erectile disfunction" and went on to make billions of dollars, and an industry was born.
- jklein11 6y agoSo in this context you are saying that HIV is a disorder that was invented by advertisers in order to sell anti-virals? Do you have any evidence to substantiate that(or your claim that ED is not a clinical condition?)
- necovek 6y agoI read that in a way "invented" is usually used (esp due to use of "define a category"): someone was the first to do it. Not as in "it's an imaginary thing".
- jac241 6y agoAre you suggesting that impotence is an invented ("medicalized") condition? I should start a physicians of hacker news blog... Prozac and premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a better example.