The healthy skeptic [[electronic resource] ] : cutting through the hype about your health / / Robert J. Davis |
Autore | Davis Robert J. <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
Disciplina | 613 |
Soggetto topico |
Health education
Consumer education Health products Quacks and quackery Health - Information services |
Soggetto non controllato |
antichemical activities
critical thinking culinary diet and exercise emotional rollercoaster food lovers health and fitness health and longevity health promoters health reporter health healthcare myths healthy living hopeful stories humanity kitchen setting life lessons physical wellness resources science and math thinking critically tips and tools weight loss |
ISBN | 0-520-93323-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779541603321 |
Davis Robert J. <1963-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The healthy skeptic [[electronic resource] ] : cutting through the hype about your health / / Robert J. Davis |
Autore | Davis Robert J. <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
Disciplina | 613 |
Soggetto topico |
Health education
Consumer education Health products Quacks and quackery Health - Information services |
Soggetto non controllato |
antichemical activities
critical thinking culinary diet and exercise emotional rollercoaster food lovers health and fitness health and longevity health promoters health reporter health healthcare myths healthy living hopeful stories humanity kitchen setting life lessons physical wellness resources science and math thinking critically tips and tools weight loss |
ISBN | 0-520-93323-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828307703321 |
Davis Robert J. <1963-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Under the medical gaze : facts and fictions of chronic pain / / Susan Greenhalgh |
Autore | Greenhalgh Susan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina |
616/.0472/092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Chronic pain - Patients - United States
Arthritis - Patients - United States Fibromyalgia - Patients - United States Physician and patient Diagnostic errors |
Soggetto non controllato |
alternative medicine
american health care biomedical chronic disease chronic pain cultural studies detective diagnosis disease ethnography feminism feminist fibromyalgia health and wellness health care system health care health issues healthy living medical issues medical science medical system medicine mental health pain disorder pain management physical health physical therapy psychology social studies sociopolitical therapy |
ISBN |
0-520-92509-2
9786613811653 1-59734-971-2 1-282-23391-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Understanding Chronic Pain -- Part Two: Doing Biomedicine -- Part Three: Doing Gender -- Part Four: A Losing Battle to Get Better -- Part Five: Rebellion and Self-Renewal -- Part Six: Narrating Illness, Politicizing Pain -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782905403321 |
Greenhalgh Susan | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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