Covid: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science - Couverture rigide

Siegel, Marc

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ISBN 10 : 1684426863 ISBN 13 : 9781684426867

Editeur : Turner Publishing Company, 2020

Synopsis

Separating FACT from FICTION in the COVID-19 Epidemic

People are afraid. COVID-19 has upended our lives as it poses new medical dangers, economic suffering and grave uncertainty about the world around us. The collateral damage is enormous, but politics invade perception. There are so many unknowns. Does a treatment work? Is a vaccine coming? How likely are you to catch COVID and how can you best protect yourself and your family? What are the real risks and what is hysteria? Where are our fear leaders? What are their agendas?

From Fox News Medical Contributor and the author of False Alarm (Wiley, 2008) comes COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science by Marc Siegel, M.D. This shocking exposéeacute; of the facts as the media covers the national pandemic news and spread of the invisible virus reinforces the notion that we must arm ourselves against fear tactics that limit our abilities to safely make decisions and protect our families in a world of uncertainty.

Life for citizens of the developed world before the pandemic was safer, easier, and healthier than for any other people in history thanks to modern medicine, science, technology, and intelligence-but COVID-19 has stolen that security and our nation's peace of mind. Now there is a pandemic virus, as well as a crippling epidemic of fear sweeping America. Why? The answer, according to nationally renowned health commentator Dr. Marc Siegel, is that we already lived in an artificially created culture of fear that was just waiting to be unleashed. In COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science, Siegel identifies three major catalysts of the culture of fear: government, the media, and our own psyche. With fascinating, blow-by-blow analyses of the most sensational false alarms of the past few years, compounded now by the worst contagion of our lifetimes, he shows how fear mongers manipulate our most primitive instincts--often without our even realizing it. COVID shows us how to look behind the hype and hysteria, inoculate ourselves against these crippling fear tactics, and develop the emotional and intellectual skills needed to take back our lives, even as we battle the pandemic itself.

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À propos de l'auteur

Marc Siegel M.D., is a leading medical expert on the global Covid-19 pandemic and the chief medical analyst for FOX News. President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview, calls Dr. Siegel one of his primary "guides" to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Siegel is a member of the board of contributors at USA Today, a columnist for The Hill, a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, a clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and the medical director for Doctor Radio on SiriusXM. Dr. Siegel is also the author of False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear, The Inner Pulse: Unlocking the Secret Code of Sickness and Health, the novel Bellevue, as well as other books on flu. With over 30 years of experience in the medical field, Dr. Siegel has written extensively on health, outbreaks and pandemics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Turner Publishing Company
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1684426863
• ISBN 13: 9781684426867
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible