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Bigger and Better: How Pfizer Redefined Erectile Dysfunction

Joel Lexchin

PLoS Medicine · 2006 · 109 citations · 11 references

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Lexchin examines how Pfizer transformed sildenafil from an effective product for erectile dysfunction due to illness or injury into a drug that healthy men can use to enhance their erections.

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