Geoffrey C Kabat

Getting Risk Right

Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An incisive look at some of todayâ s most contested health risksâ both real and illusory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 36g
• ISBN-13: 9780231166461
• ISBN-10: 023116646X
• Artikelnr.: 45002568

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Kabat is Senior epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center. He is the author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology and Getting Risk Right, both with CUP. He also blogs regularly for Forbes magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface: Why Do Things That Are Unlikely to Harm Us Get the Most Attention?
List of Abbreviations
1. The Illusion of Validity and the Power of "Negative Thinking"
2. Splendors and Miseries of Associations
3. When Risk Goes Viral: Biases and Bandwagons
4. Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer? A Tale of Two Sciences
5. Hormonal Confusion: The Contested Science of Endocrine Disruption
6. Deadly Remedy: A Mysterious Disease, a Medicinal Herb, and the
Recognition of a Worldwide Public Health Threat
7. HPV, Cancer, and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Triumph
Conclusion
Appendix: List of Interviews
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"Geoffrey Kabat's writing, as usual, is phenomenally clear and expressive. His logical cadences are both air-tight and a pleasure to read. His insights into the workings and mis-workings of science, the sociology of science, and the interplay of personalities and organizations are penetrating and precise, and, above all original." - Steven D. Stellman, Columbia University