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Dumit, Joseph. Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health . Duke University Press, 2012. [Context on pharmaceutical marketing and patienthood]

This alignment suggests that under capitalism, even romantic scripts are borrowed from the marketplace. Jamie’s “game” is a sales technique, and Maggie, initially, is another territory to conquer. However, the film’s subversion lies in Maggie’s refusal to be a passive consumer. She diagnoses Jamie immediately, calling him a “salesman” in bed, thereby exposing the performance. Her early-onset Parkinson’s—a progressive, incurable neurological disorder—functions as a narrative anti-pharmaceutical. It cannot be “solved” by Viagra or Zoloft; it can only be managed, and it will ultimately degrade her body. Maggie represents the limit case of the pharmaceutical worldview: what happens when the drug stops working? love & other drugs film

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