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Manufactured Maladies: how ordinary life gets turned into illness

A plain-language, independent reference on how ordinary life, normal variation and mere risk get turned into treatable illness — and how to read the fine print.

Schematic diagram: Manufactured Maladies: how ordinary life gets turned into illness

Read this site the way you should read the leaflet in a medicine box: slowly, and with an eye on who benefits. Each of the six sections below opens a silo of plain, sourced pages.

Full prescribing information · about this reference

Independent and unaffiliated. Manufactured Maladies is a new project at a web address a different project used in the past. It is not that project, its organisers, or any prior owner, has no connection to them, and revives nothing. The term “disease mongering” and the works and people named here belong to their authors; we summarise, we do not reproduce.

Nothing here is medical advice. If a topic concerns your health, take it to a clinician you trust — ideally one willing to discuss whether a test or treatment is truly needed.