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The skeptic's guide to health, medicine, and the media [videorecording] / by Benaroch, Roy,teacher.(CARDINAL)481782; Teaching Company,production company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Lecturer: Dr. Roy Benaroch, Emory University School of Medicine.As consumers of medical news, how can we know whether the article we just read is based on solid science or is just an ill-informed attempt to grab readers? Professor Roy Benaroch of Emory University School of Medicine provides just the direction we need in The Skeptic's Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media. In 24 fascinating lectures that address the most important health issues of our day--heart health, obesity, longevity, the opioid crisis, the stigma of mental illness, alternative medicine approaches, toxins in the environment, and more--Dr. Benaroch shows us how to recognize the good reporting and the bad. With his guidance, you'll create a 'Skeptic's Toolkit,' asking the questions that take you past the headlines and beyond the way health news is typically reported. You'll learn six specific questions to always keep in mind as you read any article in print or online: What's the source of the article? Is the evidence presented strong enough to be valuable? Is someone trying to sell me something? Is this study about people like me, and are the factors they're measuring in the study important to me? Does the report present a viewpoint from scientists not directly involved in the study? And is the story itself sensible, fitting in with what we already know? Armed with these questions, you'll be able to find valuable information to help inform your own health care decisions, without falling prey to snappy-sounding articles that have no basis in solid science.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Instructional films.; Lectures.; Educational films.; Nonfiction films.; Mass media in health education.; Health education.; Communication in medicine.; Communication in public health.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Bad advice : or why celebrities, politicians, and activists aren't your best source of health information / by Offit, Paul A.,author.(CARDINAL)645646;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index.Prologue: On being naïve -- What science is--and what it isn't -- White mice and windowless rooms -- An alibi for ignorance -- Feeding the beast -- To debate or not to debate -- Make 'em laugh -- Science goes to the movies -- The Emperor's new clothes -- Judgment Day -- The nuclear option -- Pharma shill -- A ray of hope -- Epilogue: The end of the tour.A guide to taking on self-appointed activists and quack experts offers hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation, by a science and public health professional who has been on the frontline for twenty years.
Subjects: Communication in public health.; Communication in medicine.; Health in mass media.; Disinformation.; Quacks and quackery.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Stuck : how vaccine rumors start - and why they don't go away / by Larson, Heidi,author.(CARDINAL)536927;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Stuck examines how the issues surrounding vaccine hesitancy are, more than anything, about people feeling left out of the conversation. A new dialogue is long overdue, one that addresses the many types of vaccine hesitancy and the social factors that perpetuate them. To do this, Stuck provides a clear-eyed examination of the social vectors that transmit vaccine rumors, their manifestations around the globe, and how these individual threads are all connected.On rumor -- Dignity and distrust -- On risk -- Volatility of opinion -- Wildfires -- Emotional contagion -- The power of belief -- Pandemics and publics.
Subjects: Vaccination; Immunization; Anti-vaccination movement.; Communication in public health.; Public health; Rumor.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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COVID-19 for dummies / by Chapnick, Edward,author.(CARDINAL)884620;
Everything you need to know about the disease, the pandemic, and the future of COVID-19.
Subjects: COVID-19 (Disease); Coronavirus infections.; Coronavirus infections; Coronaviruses.; Communication in public health.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The infodemic : how censorship and lies made the world sicker and less free / by Simon, Joel,1964-author.; Mahoney, Robert(Robert M.),1954-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Censored in China -- The Authoritarian Playbook -- The Democratic Populists -- State Surveillance -- Trust Me -- The Local Angle -- The Meaning of Freedom."As COVID-19 spread around the world, so did government censorship. The Infodemic lays bare not just old-fashioned censorship, but also the mechanisms of a modern brand of "censorship through noise," which moves beyond traditional means of state control-such as the jailing of critics and restricting the flow of information-to open the floodgates of misinformation, overwhelming the public with lies and half-truths. Joel Simon and Robert Mahoney, who have traveled the world for many years defending press freedom and journalists' rights as the directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, chart the onslaught of COVID censorship beginning in China, through Iran, Russia, India, Egypt, Brazil, and inside the Trump White House. Increased surveillance in thename of public health, the collapse of public trust in institutions, and the demise of local news reporting all contributed to help governments hijack the flow of information and usurp power. Full of vivid characters and behind the scenes accounts, The Infodemic shows how under the cover of a global pandemic, governments have undermined freedom and taken control-this new political order may be the legacy of the disease"--
Subjects: Case studies.; Communication in politics.; Communication in public health.; COVID-19 (Disease); Civil rights; Censorship.; Censorship.;
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I didn't get to say good-bye : a story for young children grieving during Coronavirus / by Kelly-Wavering, Jillian,1986-author.; Barnett, Andrew,author.; Stefani, Zander,illustrator.;
"The ultimate purpose of this book is to witness children in their grief, to help them have names for the complicated feelings they are experiencing as they grieve, and to provide a ritual which gives them the opportunity to say good-bye in their own way. When our emotions go unwitnessed by ourselves and others, those emotions can end up living inside of us, and making our lives more difficult. "I Didn't Get to Say Good-bye" hopes to provide the opportunity to have those feelings witnessed and to make a space for grieving."--Amazon.com
Subjects: Communication in public health; Coronavirus infections; Coronavirus infections; Coronaviruses; COVID-19 (Disease);
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Fighting the first wave : why the coronavirus was tackled so differently across the globe / by Baldwin, Peter,1956-author.(CARDINAL)776135;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-371) and index.COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers the reasons why in this definitive account of the global politics of pandemic. He shows that how nations responded depended above all on the political tools available -- how firmly could the authorities order citizens' lives and how willingly would they be obeyed? In Asia, nations quarantined the infected and their contacts. In the Americas and Europe they shut down their economies, hoping to squelch the virus's spread. Others, above all Sweden, responded with a light touch, putting their faith in social consensus over coercion. Whether citizens would follow their leaders' requests and how soon they would tire of their demands were crucial to hopes of taming the pandemic.
Subjects: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease); COVID-19 (Disease); COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; World politics.; Communication in public health.; Health risk communication.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Soda science : making the world safe for Coca-Cola / by Greenhalgh, Susan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Recent years have brought growing concern about the power of huge corporations to distort science for corporate benefit, often to the detriment of human health. This book unearths a kind of corporate science that the author, anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh, calls "soda science." Soda science was created not to combat obesity but to defend the soda industry from threats to profits posed by public health calls to see soda as a major contributor to the obesity epidemic. Greenhalgh unravels the project of the global food industry to assemble this new, industry-friendly body of knowledge in the US, spread it to key markets around the world, and get it embedded in official policies on diet-related chronic disease. She follows the "soda scientists"-industry executives, leaders of scientific nonprofits, influential American scientists, and top Chinese scientist-officials-as they made the science, carried it to China, and translated it into Chinese ideas and public policies. Soda science was a real if unconventional science, and it deserves attention because it had harmful effects that remain largely hidden, even today. In the US, soda science, which was widely circulated through public health campaigns and diet books, spread the idea that exercise is more important for weight loss than caloric restriction, a belief that remains pervasive in American culture. Soda science, in other words, was a key forerunner of the step-counting, weight-obsessed fitness culture of today"--
Subjects: Cola drinks; Coca Cola (Trademark); Research, Industrial; Science and industry; Pseudoscience; Cola drinks; Obesity; Nutritionally induced diseases; Communication in public health; Cola drinks; Science and state;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Promoting public health in North Carolina / by North Carolina.Office of Health Education and Communication.; North Carolina. Office of Health Education and Communication.Public Health Week Committee.;
Subjects: Public health; Health education; Health promotion;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Regulations and disease control measures of the North Carolina State Board of Health governing the control of communicable diseases / by North Carolina.State Board of Health.(CARDINAL)133935; American Public Health Association.(CARDINAL)150704;
Subjects: Public health laws;
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