Medical misinformation and social harm in non-science based health practices : a multidisciplinary perspective /: a multidisciplinary perspective. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anita Lavorgna and Anna Di Ronco.
• Editors: Lavorgna, Anita; Ronco, Anna Di, 1986-
• Contents: 1. Introduction Anita Lavorgna and Anna Di Ronco; 2. Towards a better criminological understanding of harmful alternative health practices: a provider typology Anita Lavorgna and Heather Horsburgh; 3. Science denial: psychological processes underlying denial of science-based medical practices Sara Prot and Craig A Anderson; 4. Understanding the demand for illicit lifestyle medicines online: an analysis of the risk perception of consumers Rosa Koenraadt; 5. ‘ First do no harm': exploring non-evidence-based practices within the Ukrainian health sector Anna Markovska, Ganna Isayeva, and Sergyi Ostropolets; 6: ‘Don’t trust the experts!’: Analysing the use of populist rhetoric in the anti-vaxxers discourse in Italy Ester Massa; 7: Quantum physics and the modern trends in pseudoscience Enrico Gazzola; 8: Who are the experts? Examining the online promotion of misleading and harmful nutrition information Heather Horsburgh and David Barron; 9: Activism against medicine on social media: untangling the #novax protest in Italy on Twitter Anna Di Ronco and James Allen-Robertson; 10: Traditional herbal medicine and the challenges of pharmacovigilance Nayeli Urquiza Haas and Emilie Cloatre; 11: Framing of CAM-adjacent health scams in the UK media: an interdisciplinary perspective Anita Lavorgna and Felicity L Bishop; 12: Dossier Hamer: the role of investigative journalism in exposing pseudomedicine Ilario D’Amato; 13: Concluding thoughts Anita Lavorgna and Anna Di Ronco
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 185 pages)
• Subjects: 610; Alternative medicine -- Social aspects; Medical misconceptions; Complementary Therapies; Communication; Alternative medicine -- Social aspects; Medical misconceptions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429424434; 0429424434; 9780429754999; 9780429754982; 0429754981
• Related ISBNs: 042975499X; 9781138388666
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 05, 2020).
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