Tabloid medicine
Subtitle: how the Internet is being used to hijack medical science for fear and profit
By: Robert Goldberg
Publisher: Kaplan Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781607147275
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prospect theory : the risks we choose to live with and why; title: The precautionary principle: the politics of pseudocertainty; title: Insta-Americans : the rise of online self-diagnosis; title: A damaging precedent : the side effects of the Vioxx panic; title: Web of fear : vaccines, autism, and the emergence of "instant experts"; title: The suicide crisis : sowing fear about antidepressants; title: Assault on scientists : the conflict-of-interest canard; title: Tabloid medicine's victims : public health and medical progress; title: Attling tabloid medicine : the personalized medicine revolution.