Develop a cure for a non existent disease
There is a new documentary causing quite a lot of buzz today. It is called Orgasm, Inc . and it looks at the strange but inevitable collision of the pharmaceutical industry with women’s sexuality. Liz Canner uses this film to display the sad reality that pharmaceutical companies play a crucial role in shaping the diseases they seek to treat. To make money they need to treat diseases and they are certainly not above fabricating or exaggerating them in order to come to the rescue with some amazing new cure. Such is the case with Female Sexual Dysfunction , the particular focus of the documentary. At least that is what Liz Canner argues in Orgasm Inc . This is not a case of companies reacting to genuine problems and creating cures, but a case of companies generating diseases and then magnanimously stepping in with a cure. A Cure that Needs a Disease If Canner is right, it tells us two things: there are some diseases that need a cure and some cures that need a disease .