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False premises, false promises / selected writings of Petr Skrabanek ; with an introduction by George Davey Smith.
- Title
- False premises, false promises / selected writings of Petr Skrabanek ; with an introduction by George Davey Smith.
- Author
- Skrabanek, P. (Petr)
- Publication
- [Whithorn, Scotland] : Tarragon Press for the Skrabanek Foundation, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | W 61.3 S629fa 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Davey Smith, George
- Description
- xxix, 207 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- In defence of destructive criticism -- False premises and false promises of breast cancer screening -- Acupuncture: past, present and future -- Convulsive therapy--a critical appraisal of its origins and value -- From language to lesion -- Scepticism, irrationalism and pseudoscience -- Cervical cancer in nuns and prostitutes: a plea for scientific continence -- Provision for research with animals -- Nonsensus consensus -- Why is preventative medicine exempted from ethical constraints? -- Risk-factor epidemiology: science or non-science? -- Smoking and society -- The poverty of epidemiology -- The emptiness of the black box -- Irish traditional medicine: the foxglove ordeal and other folk 'cures' -- A subversive man.
- ISBN
- 1870781112
- OCLC
- 47151502
- SCSB-14234582
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library