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Selling sickness / 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:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Healy, David, 1954-.
- Healy, David.
- GlaxoSmithKline.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Advertising--Medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Advertising.
- Advertising--Drugs--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Medicine--Marketing--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Medicine.
- Drugs--Marketing--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Drugs.
- Antidepressants.
- Drugs--Marketing.
- Medicine--Marketing.
- Advertising--Drugs.
- Advertising--Medicine.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Ill for every pill
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Closed captioning available.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Robyn Johnston.
- Credits:
- Editor, Karen Johnson ; photography, John Whitteron ; composer, Felicity Fox.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 30, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- if-sell Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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