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Pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses and aggressively promoting their public awareness in order to expand the markets for treatment.
It also touches on broader issues such as over-medicalisation, over-treatment and diseasemongering and the effect they can have on essentially healthy individuals.