Sociogenic

produced or determined by society or social forces

vs Wisdom Of Crowds? Peer Pressure? Culture?

socially-spread HealthCare problems - Mass Hysteria with physical symptoms - Memetic

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria
• Mass Psychogenic Illness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness

Pokemon video inducing seizures in 1997 - Once the children had a chance to hear panicky accounts of what had happened via the media, their friends, and their schools, the number of kids reported to be suffering from the illness shot up to a staggering 12,000 cases.

• http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-05/pokemon.html
• http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/149_pokemon.shtml

Other cases from late 90s - http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.155/healthissue_detail.asp

Poison-gas hysteria in Florida school in 1976 http://www.aafp.org/afp/20001215/2649.html

"June bug" epidemic in 1962 in South Carolina textile plant (reference is within a longer piece suggesting that HIV may have a psychological component in that Mass Hysteria leads to Collective Depression which leads to Immune System breakdown)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_depression