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Disease mongering — A collection of articles on disease mongering. PLoS Medicine. 2006 Disease mongering is a pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses, and promoting public awareness of such, in order to expand the markets… … Wikipedia
Disease Mongering — A collection of articles on disease mongering. PLoS Medicine. 2006 Disease Mongering (deutscher Begriff Krankheitserfindung) bezeichnet ein unzulässiges Zuordnen normaler Lebensabläufe oder individueller Mängel wie etwa eine Glatzenbildung bei… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Fear mongering — (or scaremongering) is the use of fear to leverage the opinions and actions of others towards some end. The object of fear is sometimes exaggerated, and the use of fear mongering is often directed in a manner using repetition, in order to… … Wikipedia
Fashion-mongering — Fash ion mon ger*ing, a. Behaving like a fashion monger. [R.] Shak. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
rumour-mongering — /ˈrumə mʌŋgərɪŋ/ (say roohmuh mungguhring) noun the listening to and passing on of rumours. Also, rumor mongering. –rumour monger, noun …
word-mongering — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷( ̷ ̷) ̷ ̷ noun : the use of empty or bombastic words mere word mongering divorced from actual life Forrest Morgan … Useful english dictionary
verse-mongering — verseˈ mongering noun • • • Main Entry: ↑verse … Useful english dictionary
word-mongering — noun Date: 1851 the use of empty or bombastic words … New Collegiate Dictionary
monger — mongering, n., adj. /mung geuhr, mong /, n. 1. a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination): a gossipmonger. 2. Chiefly Brit. a dealer in or trader of a commodity (usually used in… … Universalium
Krankheitserfindung — Disease Mongering (deutscher Begriff Krankheitserfindung) bezeichnet ein unzulässiges Zuordnen normaler Lebensabläufe oder individueller Mängel wie etwa eine Glatzenbildung bei Männern zu therapiebedürftigen Krankheiten. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1… … Deutsch Wikipedia
