| 单词 | disease mongering |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdisease mongering disease mongering n. depreciative †(a) the action or practice of causing or spreading disease (obsolete); (b) the unnecessary or inappropriate labelling of a physical condition or behaviour as a disorder requiring medical treatment, typically considered to be done for the purpose of selling drugs or other treatments.In earliest use in the context of inoculation or vaccination being viewed with suspicion or hostility. Π 1878 National Anti-compulsory-vaccination Reporter June 170/1 The..experiment of Dr. Reiss..who vaccinated..children from an ‘exquisitely scrofulous vaccinifer’, and saw scrofula develop itself in every one of them!.. The moral degradation of the modern medical school could scarcely be better exemplified... Away with its filthy disease-mongering. 1901 A. Westland Tocol. for Mothers iii. xvii. 207 All this playing with poxes or ‘disease mongering’ will be some day entirely done away with, and looked back upon with shame. 1992 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 1 Aug. Disease-mongering—convincing the healthy that they are sick or the slightly ill that they are very sick—is big business. 2011 N. M. Hadler Rethinking Aging v. 111 I have long pointed to osteoporosis as one of the best examples of disease mongering by the pharmaceutical industry... The thinning of our bones is a risk factor that has been turned into a horrifying disease. < as lemmas |
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