Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction.

摘要

Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals (Moynihan & Mintzes, 2010) is subtitled "How drug companies plan to profit from female sexual dysfunction." Unlike the drug companies, the book delivers on its la- belled claims. Using the techniques of investigative journalism, Australian journalist Ray Moynihan teams up with medical science expert Barbara Mintzes, a researcher in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia. Together, they deftly follow a paper trail to empirically establish the social construction of a single contemporary disease state. In painstaking detail that names names, the authors document the political struggle to realize and resist the acceptance of FSD into current medical wisdom.