Hyping Health Risks : Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology /

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and confusi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kabat, Geoffrey (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Temas:
Environmental health > Case studies.
Environmental health.
Epidemiology > Case studies.
Epidemiology.
Health risk assessment > Social aspects > United States > Case studies.
Health risk assessment > Social aspects > United States.
MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • 1 INTRODUCTION: Toward a Sociology of Health Hazards in Daily Life
  • 2. EPIDEMIOLOGY
  • 3. DOES THE ENVIRONMENT CAUSE BREAST CANCER?
  • 4. ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
  • 5. THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF RESIDENTIAL RADON
  • 6. THE CONTROVERSY OVER PASSIVE SMOKING
  • 7. CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX A. List of Interviews
  • APPENDIX B. How Findings Can Be Reported in a Way That Puts Them in Perspective
  • NOTES
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • CREDITS
  • INDEX

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