disease mongering

English

Noun

disease mongering (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory) The practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses in order to expand the markets for treatments.
    Hypernym: medicalization
    Near-synonyms: overmedicalization, pathologization

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