Tabloid medicine :
Goldberg, Robert, Ph. D.
Tabloid medicine : how the Internet is being used to hijack medical science for fear and profit / Robert Goldberg. - New York : Kaplan Pub., c2010. - x, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Argues that false and misleading medical information on the Internet has lead to a culture of fear where people avoid much-needed medicines and vaccines and development of these treatments is at an all-time low.
9781607147275
2010040556
101541710 DNLM
Health education.
Decision making.
Internet.
Risk assessment.
Consumer Health Information--ethics.
Decision Making.
Information Dissemination--ethics.
Internet.
Propaganda.
Risk Assessment.
RA440 / .G66 2010
613
2011 A-881 WA 590
Tabloid medicine : how the Internet is being used to hijack medical science for fear and profit / Robert Goldberg. - New York : Kaplan Pub., c2010. - x, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Argues that false and misleading medical information on the Internet has lead to a culture of fear where people avoid much-needed medicines and vaccines and development of these treatments is at an all-time low.
9781607147275
2010040556
101541710 DNLM
Health education.
Decision making.
Internet.
Risk assessment.
Consumer Health Information--ethics.
Decision Making.
Information Dissemination--ethics.
Internet.
Propaganda.
Risk Assessment.
RA440 / .G66 2010
613
2011 A-881 WA 590