Good Science or Good Business?: An article from: The Hastings Center Report

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From the author: In the 1950s, estimates of the incidence of depression were fifty people per million; today the estimate is 100,000 per million. What was once defined as "anxiety" and treated with tranquilizers in the wake of the crisis of benzodiazipine dependence and the development of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors became "depression." And as SSRIs have been shown to be effective for treating other nervous conditions, such as panic disorder, estimates of their frequency have increased markedly as well. Disease increasingly means whatever we have a reimbursable treatment for.

Citation Details
Title: Good Science or Good Business?
Author: David Healy
Publication:The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: 30 Issue: 2 Page: 19

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