False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear - Hardcover

Siegel, Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471678694 ISBN 13: 9780471678694

Verlag: WILEY, 2005

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Book by Siegel Marc

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"Anthrax, vaccine shortages, and SARS, oh my! Americans have been pummeled with an endless series of apparent threats. 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, September/October 2005) "Marc Siegel tries to reduce the hysteria quotient with a straightforward recitation of facts and statistics. Recalling the famous Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds," Siegel tries all too sensibly (and one suspects futilely) to assess risk accurately and respond only to "plausible" threats such as the vulnerability of our container ships or "loose nukes" in former Soviet republics." (Benamin Barber, Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2005)

Reseña del editor:

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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• Verlag: WILEY
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0471678694
• ISBN 13: 9780471678694
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256