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The healthy skeptic : cutting through the hype about your health /
"The Healthy Skeptic explores who the health promoters are - from journalists and celebrities to industry-funded groups and consumer activists - what their motives are, and how they are spinning us in ways we often don't recognize. Robert J. Davis, a health reporter who holds a master'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : health sellers
- Says who? how we know what (we think) we know
- The news media : eat this!
- Diet books : don't eat that!
- Advertisements : take a supplement!
- Government campaigns : watch your cholesterol!
- Celebrities : get tested!
- Health groups : wear sunscreen!
- Consumer activists : beware of chemicals!
- Anti-aging doctors : don't get sick, don't get old, don't die!
- Guaranteed! over-promising on prevention.