Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 2, Issue 5 , Pages 379-385 , September 2006

Listerine’s Long Shadow: Disease Mongering and the Selling of Sickness

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doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2006.06.005

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 2, Issue 5 , Pages 379-385 , September 2006