The healthy skeptic cutting through the hype about your health

The healthy skeptic : cutting through the hype about your health / Robert J. Davis.

Author/creator	Davis, Robert J., 1963-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press,
Description	243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Subject(s)	Health education. Consumer education. Health products. Quacks and quackery. Health--Information services.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-230) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2007037341
ISBN	9780520249189 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0520249186 (cloth : alk. paper)

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