F. D. A. Improves Addyi Analysis

In “F.D.A. Approves Addyi, a Libido Pill for Women”, the author states that critics said the campaign behind Addyi was fueled by a women’s movement to pressure the F.D.A. into approving a drug that based to have equality in the market of sexual assistance medications. How does this relate to last week’s reading called “Electronic Support Groups, Patient-Consumers, and Medicalization: The Case of Contested Illness”? How should we consider FSD, as mental or biological disorder? For example, how is similar to patients more and more are refusing to acknowledge a doctor's expertise?

In “Manufacturing Desire: The Commodification of Female Sexual Dysfunction”, Fishman discusses the debate on the potential off-label uses of a particular drug in