False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear - Couverture souple

Siegel, Marc

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0470053844 ISBN 13 : 9780470053843

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Texte en anglais / text in english ! Edition de 2005 !

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Chosen by Discover magazine as one of the top science books of 2005

"A terrific and groundbreaking book."
Bob Kerrey, Publishers Weekly

"Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say."
Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, The New Yorker

"Siegel makes a passionate argument that the only thing we have to fear is, indeed, our own paranoia. Reason, he says, is the best vaccination for this epidemic."
Psychology Today

"Siegel cuts through the hype about the ′deadly′ this and the ′lethal′ that, and applies reason in seeking the answers."
John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

"Timely and needed. At such times, we need soothsayers and explicators to redirect the ready–fire–aim mind–set. Siegel′s book fulfills this role well."
The Journal of the American Medical Association

"A color–coded burst of sanity amid the fear and frenzy of twenty–first–century America."
Walter Shapiro, Washington Bureau Chief, Salon

Présentation de l'éditeur

Life today for citizens of the developed world is safer, easier, and healthier than for any other people in history thanks to modern medicine, science, technology, and intelligence. So why is an epidemic of fear sweeping America? The answer, according to nationally renowned health commentator Dr. Marc Siegel, is that we live in an artificially created culture of fear. In False Alarm, Siegel identifies three major catalysts of the culture of fear government, the media, and big pharma. With fascinating, blow–by–blow analyses of the most sensational false alarms of the past few years, he shows how these fearmongers manipulate our most primitive instincts often without our even realizing it. False Alarm shows us how to look behind the hype and hysteria, inoculate ourselves against fear tactics, and develop the emotional and intellectual skills needed to take back our lives.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0470053844
• ISBN 13: 9780470053843
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256