The healthy skeptic

cutting through the hype about your health
Robert J Davis
Book - 2008
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Main Author: Davis, Robert J., 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
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300 |a 243 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-230) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: Health sellers -- Says who? How we know what (we think) we know -- The news media : Eat this! -- Diet books : Don't eat that! -- Advertisements : Take a supplement! -- Government campaigns : Watch your cholesterol! -- Celebrities : Get tested! -- Health groups : Wear sunscreen! -- Consumer activists : Beware of chemicals! -- Anti-aging doctors : Don't get sick, don't get old, don't die! -- Guaranteed! Over-promising on prevention. 
650 0 |a Health education. 
650 0 |a Consumer education. 
650 0 |a Health products. 
650 0 |a Quacks and quackery. 
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