TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldberg,Robert
TI  - Tabloid medicine: how the Internet is being used to hijack medical science for fear and profit 
SN  - 9781607147275
AV  - RA440 .G66 2010
U1  - 613 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Kaplan Pub.
KW  - Health education
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Internet
KW  - Risk assessment
KW  - Consumer Health Information
KW  - ethics
KW  - Decision Making
KW  - Information Dissemination
KW  - Propaganda
KW  - Risk Assessment
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2010040556-d.html
ER  -