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To Your Health
Kraemer, Helena Chmura; Lowe, Karen Kraemer; Kupfer, David J.
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Description for To Your Health
Hardback. Presents examples from the general media and scientific journals, a guide to a critical reading of research reports. This helpful book was written for informed consumers and physicians as well as for scientists evaluating the risk research literature or contemplating projects on risk research. Num Pages: 288 pages, numerous figures and tables. BIC Classification: MBGR; MBNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, other accepted as "scientific truth" for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true. Physicians are faced with trying to make sense of those conflicting or questionable results in the scientific literature in order to guide their patients to the best possible decisions. The situation is not much easier for scientists whom ay waste yers of their productive life, and considerable resources, basing their research efforts on what prove to be misleading earlier research findings. What this book does is ... Read more
The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, other accepted as "scientific truth" for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true. Physicians are faced with trying to make sense of those conflicting or questionable results in the scientific literature in order to guide their patients to the best possible decisions. The situation is not much easier for scientists whom ay waste yers of their productive life, and considerable resources, basing their research efforts on what prove to be misleading earlier research findings. What this book does is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195178708
SKU
V9780195178708
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Ref
99-2
Reviews for To Your Health
Advance praise for To Your Health: If you've ever been confused over the conclusions of medical research and their implications for changing the style of the rest of your life, this is a book that can not only help you understand how compelling those conclusions really are, it may even help researchers and the media who report such research to ... Read more