Medical misinformation and social harm in non-science based health practices : a multidisciplinary perspective / edited by Anita Lavorgna and Anna Di Ronco.
- 其他作者：
- 其他題名：
- Routledge studies in crime and society.
- 出版： Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge 2020.
- 叢書名： Routledge studies in crime and society
- 主題： Alternative medicine--Social aspects. , Medical misconceptions. , Complementary Therapies. , Communication.
- ISBN： 978-1-03-208753-5 (pbk.) :: GBP36.99 、 978-1-13-838866-6 (hbk.) 、 1-13-838866-1 (hbk.)
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 系統號： 005277648 | 機讀編目格式
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Fraudulent, harmful, or at best useless pharmaceutical and therapeutic approaches developed outside science-based medicine have boomed in recent years, especially due to the commercialisation of cyberspace. The latter has played a fundamental role in the rise of false 'health experts', and in the creation of filter bubbles and echo chambers that have contributed to the formation of highly polarised debates on non-science-based health practices--online as well as offline. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this edited book brings together contributions of international academics and practitioners from criminology, digital sociology, health psychology, medicine, law, physics, and journalism, where they critically analyse different types of non-science-based health approaches. With this volume, we aim to reconcile different scientific understandings of these practices, synthesising a variety of empirical, theoretical and interpretative approaches, and exploring the challenges, implications and potential remedies to the spread of dangerous and misleading health information. This edited book will offer some food for thought not only to students and academics in the social sciences, health psychology and medicine among other disciplines, but also to medical practitioners, science journalists, debunkers, policy makers and the general public, as they might all benefit from a greater awareness and critical knowledge of the harms caused by non-scientific health practices.