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The healthy skeptic

by Davis, Robert J.,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of California Press, (Berkeley :) Physical details: 243 p. : ill.
Subject(s): Health education. | Consumer education. | Health products. | Quacks and quackery. | Health -- Information services. | Electronic books.
Year: 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-230) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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