Lifestyle drugs and the new wave of pharmaceutical personality sculpting
By Breanne Fahs | December 15th, 2009 | Category: Featured, Issue 6, On Public Life | No Comments »“Ask your doctor if medical advice from a television commercial is right for you.”
—Bumper sticker slogan
At a the annual conference for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality last year, I heard a researcher describe how the pharmaceutical industry “jukes the stats”—that is, crunches numbers creatively in order to persuade the public that their [...]
