Truth, Lies, and Public Health
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Truth, Lies, and Public Health

How We Are Affected When Science and Politics Collide

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Truth, Lies, and Public Health

How We Are Affected When Science and Politics Collide

About this book

The politicalization of research findings has become prevalent over the past two decades. Politics often prevents the implementation of policy supported by irrefutable science. Most of us understand something about how this is happening with stem cell research, but Cornell's Madelon Finkel delves deep into the subject to make the issues clear, also revealing how ideology and politics are distorting, diminishing and destroying scientific research results regarding topics from needle exchange, HIV/AIDS prevention and medical marijuana to antiobiotic use with animals later marketed for human consumption. When ideology—whether it is the ideology of scientists and clinicians or of politicians—distorts scientific findings and public health judgment, public welfare is endangered, potentially affecting every person in our nation. Finkel also discusses how research is funded and how ideology has influenced that process. Numerous examples are given to illustrate the consequences of co-opting the scientific integrity of a program in this way.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9780275991289
eBook ISBN
9780313082207
Edition
1
Topic
Medicina
Subtopic
Salute generale

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1 About Politics and Science
  5. 2 The Politics of Contraception
  6. 3 The Global AIDS Epidemic: Could It Have Been Prevented?
  7. 4 The Stem Cell Controversy: Navigating a Sea of Ethics, Politics, and Science
  8. 5 Marijuana as Medicine: Science versus Politics
  9. 6 The Quintessential Catch-22: The U.S. Approach to Needle Exchange in HIV AIDS Prevention
  10. 7 Bleak House and Beyond: How Tuberculosis Control Got Side-tracked
  11. 8 Science, Politics, and the Regulation of Dietary Supplements
  12. 9 Silicone Breast Implants: Misconceptions, Misinterpretations, and Mistakes
  13. 10 Obesity and Public Policy
  14. 11 Disease Prevention through Vaccination: The Science and the Controversy
  15. Notes
  16. Index
  17. About the Author and Contributors