Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 28 October
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
As the search for the so-called ‘Pink Viagra’ continues, controversy surrounds the nature of the medical ‘condition’ such a pill would treat. Do women with a low libido really have a disease called ‘hypoactive-sexual desire disorder’? Does it really affect one-in-ten women as drug companies claim?
Award-winning investigative journalist Ray Moynihan reveals how pharmaceutical marketing is merging with medical science, inexorably expanding the boundaries of illness to grow markets for the latest medicines.
Lunchbox/Soapbox is a simple idea; an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, in the middle of the day. A weekly piece of polemic for lunching folk to chew on. BYO lunch.
Featuring
Ray Moynihan
Ray Moynihan is a health journalist, author, documentary-maker and academic researcher with a global reputation.
Reporting across print, radio, television and the new media, Ray has worked at ABC TV’s investigative program Four Corners, ABC Radio National’s Background Briefing and The Australian Financial Review. Along with book-writing, documentary-making and academic research, he is currently a contributor to Crikey, Radio New Zealand and the British Medical Journal, where he is a visiting editor.
The winner of many awards for his investigative journalism, Ray’s 2005 book Selling Sickness was described in the New York Times as a “compelling case” and has been translated into a dozen languages. His fourth book, Sex, Lies & Pharmaceuticals will be released globally in late 2010.