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Selling sickness
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- Summary
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Documentary examines the pharmaceutical industry's marketing of antidepressants with particular emphasis on the firm GlaxoSmithKline. It explores the unhealthy relationships between society, medica...
Documentary examines the pharmaceutical industry's marketing of antidepressants with particular emphasis on the firm GlaxoSmithKline. It explores the unhealthy relationships between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry as they promote miracle cures--selling not just drugs but also the latest diseases that go with them. It also looks at the growing controversy around SSRI antidepressants (especially as they affect adolescents) and follows British psychiatrist David Healy and patients' accusations that aggressive drug marketing is blurring the boundaries between medical conditions and ordinary life.
Details
- Creator
- Film Finance Corporation Australia presents ; a Paradigm Pictures production ; director, Catherine Scott ; producer, Pat Fiske ; produced in association with SBS Independent, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, France 2, and the New South Wales Film and Television Office
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (52 min.))
- OCLC
- ocn916530420
- Credits
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- Narrator, Robyn Johnston
- Editor, Karen Johnson ; photography, John Whitteron ; composer, Felicity Fox
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Australian Film Finance Corporation/New South Wales Film and Television Office/Paradigm Pictures, c2004; previously released in 2005.
- Closed captioning available.
Subjects
- Healy, David, 1954-
- GlaxoSmithKline.
- Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Advertising -- Medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Advertising -- Drugs -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Medicine -- Marketing -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Drugs -- Marketing -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Antidepressants.