Hyping Health Risks -- Now available in paper

"An admirable search for scientific truth amid a sea of conflicting and often uninformed opinions." - Leonard Cole, Rutgers University  Hyping Health Risks Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology    Geoffrey C. Kabat Order Your Copy Now and Save 30%! We'd like to offer you 30% off orders of Hyping Health Risks. To save 30%, add the book to your shopping cart, and enter code HYPKA in the "Enter Coupon Code" field at check out. Click on the "apply" button and your savings will be calculated. Table of Contents | Reviews | Read the chapter Toward a Sociology of Health Hazards in Daily Life | Read an interview with Geoffrey Kabat    "Geoffrey C. Kabat, a respected epidemiologist, provides an insider's account of how a number of ostensible health hazards have been blown out of proportion. While we face a daily barrage of health scares, Kabat cuts through the confusion and provides a lucid and rigorous rationale for rejecting much of the fear culture that permeates our society." - Shelly Ungar, University of Toronto    The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and confusion on the part of the public concerning which exposures have important effects on health and which are likely to have minimal or no effect.     By means of four case studies, Kabat demonstrates how a powerful confluence of interests can lead to overstating or distorting the scientific evidence. He considers the health risks of pollutants such as DDT as a cause of breast cancer, electromagnetic fields from power lines, radon within residences, and secondhand tobacco smoke. Tracing the trajectory of each of these hazards from its initial emergence to the present, Kabat shows how publication of more rigorous studies and critical assessments ultimately help put hazards in perspective.   ORDER THE BOOK      $24.00 $16.80 (with discount code HYPKA) / £16.50  Paper  272 pages, 12 illus.  12 tables For more titles in:     Science Health Sociology  FOLLOW Columbia University Press:

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