Worse Than Ignorance - The Challenge of Health Misinformation

"This Element presents a systematic picture of how health communication failures pose risks for patients and healthcare professionals. The problem brings us back to a perennial question-what are good reasons for knowing one is right? This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Introduction: The Problem of Knowledge Failures in Health; 1. The Growth of Health Misinformation; 2. What does it mean to be Misinformed?; 3. Patterns of Health Knowledge Failure; 4. Addressing Knowledge Failures; 5. The Doctor-Patient Relationship and Misinformation Management.

Zusammenfassung

This Element presents a systematic picture of how health communication failures pose risks for patients and healthcare professionals. The problem brings us back to a perennial question—what are good reasons for knowing one is right? This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kent Nakamoto, Peter J. Schulz, Peter J. (University of Lugano and Nanyang Schulz, Schulz Peter J.
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2024
• EAN: 9781009467902
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0946790-2
• Seiten: 90
• Serie: Elements in Health Communication
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Medienwissenschaft; Media Studies, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Disinformation and misinformation, Public health and preventive medicine