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Consumer Health: A Guide To Intelligent Decisions | 
 enlarge | Authors: Stephen Barrett, William London, Robert Baratz, Manfred Kroger
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Category: Book
Buy Used: $70.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 11601
Media: Paperback
Edition: 8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.1 x 1
ISBN: 0072972238
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1
EAN: 9780072972238
ASIN: 0072972238
Publication Date: March 9, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
This new edition of the most comprehensive text available in the field continues to provide a vast amount of information to enable consumers to make wise choices regarding health products and services. It offers a panoramic view of the health marketplace, while explaining the scientific methods that are essential for validating claims about how products and services affect health.
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 Textbook or Polemic? December 1, 2008
When I taught health science for the State University of New York, I "inherited" the use of this textbook from the previous instructor's syllabus. It is a strikingly poor textbook. My students (mostly college sophomores and juniors, without a heavy-duty scientific background) rapidly detected what they saw as the book's paternal attitude, its anti-vitamin bias, and its factual errors as easily as I could. Fortunately, there are many other good consumer health and nutrition texts out there. In my opinion, just about any one of them is several steps up from "Consumer Health: A Guide To Intelligent Decisions." Instructors, before you order this on for your class, preview a copy carefully and see for yourself. As for me, yes, I still have my copy on hand . . . to use to demonstrate just how unscientific and politicized a textbook can actually be. Most students are considerably smarter than this book's authors seem to think they are. And thank heaven for that.
 Barrett is a must-read! September 11, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The above review is silly--it's like saying I bought a computer book from 5 years ago and it's out-of-date. Duh.
Anything by Barrett is a must-read, because he exposes core truths about health quackery and frauds.
 BEWARE:Textbook contains dated information May 23, 2005
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have been using this textbook for four semesters with undergraduates obtaining a minor in health education and am frustrated with the information that is outdated and full of errors. I will no longer be using the text in my courses. The food pyramid is wrong, exercise theories are incorrect, etc. My exercise science majors this past semester were disgusted with the mistakes.
Pat
Assistant Professor Health Education
Massachusetts Private College
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