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False Alarm de Marc Siegel

False Alarm

Autor Marc Siegel
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 sep 2006

More relevant than ever as the Coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, False Alarm (Originally released in 2008) reminds readers to look closely at the facts as the media covers the national pandemic news and spread of the virus, as well as reinforces the notion that we must arm ourselves against fear tactics that inhibit our abilities to properly make decisions in a world of uncertainty.

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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781684426188
ISBN-10: 1684426189
Pagini: 258
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Turner

Notă biografică

MARC SIEGEL, M.D., is a practicing internist and associate professor at the New York University School of Medicine. He is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, a member of USA Today's board of contributors, and a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, Slate, and the New York Post. Siegel has appeared regularly on NBC's Today show, FOX News Channel, CNN, and NPR.

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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

Cuprins

Preface. Introduction: The Fear Epidemic.
PART I:  FIGHT OR FLIGHT.
1. Why Are We So Afraid?
2. It Works for Animals but Not for Us.
3. Our Culture of Worry.
4. Playing Politics with Fear.
5. Disasters: Real or Imagined.
6. Finding Things to Worry About.
7. Profiting from Fear.
PART II:  BUGS DU JOUR.
8. Anthrax.
9. Insects, Pox, and Lethal Gas.
10. SARS.
11. Flu.
12. Cows, Birds, and Humans.
PART III:  HEALING FEAR
13. The Fear Prophets.
14. Is There a Cure for Fear?
Afterword.
Bibliography.
Index.