The healthy skeptic
Subtitle: cutting through the hype about your health
By: Robert J. Davis
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780520249189
Subjects: Health; Information services; Health education; Consumer education; Health products; Quacks and quackery
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : health sellers; title: Says who? how we know what (we think) we know; title: The news media : eat this!; title: Diet books : don't eat that!; title: Advertisements : take a supplement!; title: Government campaigns : watch your cholesterol!; title: Celebrities : get tested!; title: Health groups : wear sunscreen!; title: Consumer activists : beware of chemicals!; title: Anti-aging doctors : don't get sick, don't get old, don't die!; title: Guaranteed! over-promising on prevention.