Ebook: Denying to the grave : why we ignore the facts that will save us
Author: Gorman Jack M., Gorman Sara E
- Tags: Social medicine, Science, Methodology, Skepticism, Belief and doubt (Psychology), Denial (Psychology), MEDICAL, Public Health, PSYCHOLOGY, Clinical Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Belief and doubt, Social Medicine
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they can't possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science is wrong, that the evidence is incomplete or inconclusive, and that unidentified hazards lurk everywhere to harm us.
Abstract:
In Denying to the Grave, Gorman and Gorman explore the psychology of health science denial. Using several examples of such denial as test cases, they propose seven key principles that may lead Read more...
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