Environmental Cancer-A Political Disease? - Hardcover
In this provocative book, the authors investigate the reliability of mass media reports on environmental cancer. They find that newspaper and television accounts often cite the views of environmental activists as if they were the views of the scientific community, despite sharp differences between the two groups. Misplaced fears about the risks of environmental cancer, caution the authors, distort public policy and priorities.
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S. Robert Lichter is president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., and adjunct professor of political science at Georgetown University. He is the author of many books and articles on the role of news and entertainment media in American society. Stanley Rothman is Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of Government Emeritus and director of the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change at Smith College. His numerous books include American Elites, published by Yale University Press.
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A readable and believable presentation that is challenging to antagonists and painfully sobering to proponents of the thesis. . . . The challenge in reading this book is to lay aside our preconceived notions, understand the author's thesis, review their survey data, and then reach a reasoned conclusion. I urge physicians who treat patients to take up this challenge. -- James W. Allen, JAMA
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0300073062
- ISBN 13 9780300073065
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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