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Author Goldberg, Robert, Ph. D.

Title Tabloid medicine : how the Internet is being used to hijack medical science for fear and profit / Robert Goldberg
Published New York : Kaplan Pub., [2010]
©2010

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Description x, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Prospect theory : the risks we choose to live with and why -- The precautionary principle: the politics of pseudocertainty -- Insta-Americans : the rise of online self-diagnosis -- A damaging precedent : the side effects of the Vioxx panic -- Web of fear : vaccines, autism, and the emergence of "instant experts" -- The suicide crisis : sowing fear about antidepressants -- Assault on scientists : the conflict-of-interest canard -- Tabloid medicine's victims : public health and medical progress -- Battling tabloid medicine : the personalized medicine revolution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Health education.
Decision making.
Internet.
Risk assessment.
Consumer Health Information -- ethics.
Decision Making.
Information Dissemination -- ethics.
Internet.
Propaganda.
Risk Assessment.
LC no. 2010040556
ISBN 9781607147275
1607147270