Truth, Lies, and Public Health: How We Are Affected When Science and Politics Collide by Finkel, Madelon L.

Truth, Lies, and Public Health: How We Are Affected When Science and Politics Collide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275991289)

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Truth, Lies, and Public Health: How We Are Affected When Science and Politics Collide by Finkel, Madelon L.

Truth, Lies, and Public Health: How We Are Affected When Science and Politics Collide

$68.00
Truth, Lies, and Public Health: How We Are Affected When Science and Politics Collide by Finkel, Madelon L.

Truth, Lies, and Public Health: How We Are Affected When Science and Politics Collide

$68.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Madelon L. Finkel
ISBN-10: 0275991288
ISBN-13: 9780275991289
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2007
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.52w x 1.06d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2007 pg. 75
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1193
By Madelon L. Finkel
By Madelon L. Finkel
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Madelon Lubin Finkel is Professor of Clinical Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She serves as Director of the Office of International Medical Education as well as Director of Cornell Analytics Consulting Services at Weill Medical College. Health care policy and women's health issues are the focus of her research. She also authored Understanding the Mammography Controversy: Science, Politics, and Breast Cancer Screening (Praeger, 2005).

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