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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. The marketing of medical conditions has become a key plank of pharmaceutical industry marketing. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products.

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A Psycho-Spiritual Journey

Mad in America

In Australia, it was easy enough in those days to obtain a disability pension with subsistence-level government accommodation and an ongoing supply of medication. Philosophy I came across an advertisement in the daily newspaper for a course in “Practical Philosophy.” Grow also triggered an interest for me in philosophy.