The healthy skeptic : cutting through the hype about your health /

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"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'...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Davis, Robert J., 1963-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Sujets:
Health education.
Consumer education.
Health products.
Quacks and quackery.
Health > Information services.
Information services.
Health Education
Information Services
Quackery
Éducation sanitaire.
Consommateurs > Éducation.
Produits de santé.
Santé > Services d'information.
Services d'information.
Charlatanisme.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
Information services
Consumer education
Health education
Health > Information services
Health products
Quacks and quackery
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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