Medical Misinformation and Social Harm in Non-Science Based Health Practices (eBook, ePUB)

A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Redaktion: Lavorgna, Anita; Di Ronco, Anna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429754982
• Artikelnr.: 57932272

Autorenporträt

Anita Lavorgna, PhD, is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Southampton. She is currently leading research projects on internet-facilitated wildlife trafficking and harmful alternative health practices. Anita's research pivots around cybercrimes (especially trafficking activities online), serious and organised crime, and the propagation of misleading and fraudulent health information. Anna Di Ronco, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Sociology Department of the University of Essex. Her research interests lie in the regulation, representation, and enforcement of incivilities regulations, and individuals' resistance to social control in the physical and digital space. Her more recent projects look into the local collaborative governance of prostitution in European cities and into the role of social media in supporting (otherwise criminalised or silenced) environmental activism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Anita Lavorgna and Anna Di Ronco; 2. Towards a better
criminological understanding of harmful alternative health practices: a
provider typology Anita Lavorgna and Heather Horsburgh; 3. Science denial:
psychological processes underlying denial of science-based medical
practices Sara Prot and Craig A Anderson; 4. Understanding the demand for
illicit lifestyle medicines online: an analysis of the risk perception of
consumers Rosa Koenraadt; 5. 'First do no harm': exploring
non-evidence-based practices within the Ukrainian health sector Anna
Markovska, Ganna Isayeva, and Sergyi Ostropolets; 6: 'Don't trust the
experts!': Analysing the use of populist rhetoric in the anti-vaxxers
discourse in Italy Ester Massa; 7: Quantum physics and the modern trends in
pseudoscience Enrico Gazzola; 8: Who are the experts? Examining the online
promotion of misleading and harmful nutrition information Heather Horsburgh
and David Barron; 9: Activism against medicine on social media: untangling
the #novax protest in Italy on Twitter Anna Di Ronco and James
Allen-Robertson; 10: Traditional herbal medicine and the challenges of
pharmacovigilance Nayeli Urquiza Haas and Emilie Cloatre; 11: Framing of
CAM-adjacent health scams in the UK media: an interdisciplinary perspective
Anita Lavorgna and Felicity L Bishop; 12: Dossier Hamer: the role of
investigative journalism in exposing pseudomedicine Ilario D'Amato; 13:
Concluding thoughts Anita Lavorgna and Anna Di Ronco