Tabloid medicine : how the Internet is being used to hijack medical science for fear and profit / Robert Goldberg.
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TextPublication details: New York : Kaplan Pub., c2010.Description: x, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781607147275
- 613 22
- RA440 .G66 2010
- 2011 A-881
- WA 590
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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.
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