(2015) González Moreno, María; Saborido Alejandro, Cristian; Teira Serrano, David
Our goal in this paper is to articulate a precise concept of at least a certain kind of disease-mongering, showing how pharmaceutical marketing can commercially exploit certain diseases when their best definition is given through the success of a treatment in a clinical trial. We distinguish two types of disease-mongering according to the way they exploit the definition of the trial population for marketing purposes. We argue that behind these two forms of disease-mongering there are two well-known problems in the statistical methodology of clinical trials (the reference class problem and the distinction between statistical and clinical significance). Overcoming them is far from simple
(SLMFCE, 2018-11) Saborido Alejandro, Cristian; Oms, Sergi; González de Prado Salas, Javier
Actas del IX Congreso de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España. Contiene las comunicaciones presentadas en las siguientes materias: A. Lógica, historia y filosofía de la lógica B. Filosofía del lenguaje C. Filosofía de la mente y epistemología D. Filosofía y metodología de la ciencia E. Historia de la ciencia F. Ciencia, tecnología y sociedad G. Argumentación.
