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Sylvia Noble Tesh Hidden Arguments (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Hidden Arguments
- Publication Name
- Hidden Arguments : Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy
- Title
- Hidden Arguments
- Subtitle
- Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0813513154
- EAN
- 9780813513157
- ISBN
- 9780813513157
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Genre
- Law & Politics
- Release Date
- 01/02/1988
- Release Year
- 1988
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 10.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1988
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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In this provocative book, Sylvia Tesh shows how politics masquerades as science in the debates over the causes and prevention of disease.Tesh argues that ideas about the causes of disease which dominate policy at any given time or place are rarely determined by scientific criteria alone. The more critical factors are beliefs about how much government can control industry, who should take risks when scientists are uncertain, and whether the individual or society has the ultimate responsibility for health. Tesh argues that instead of lamenting the presence of this extra-scientific reasoning, it should be brought out of hiding and welcomed. She illustrates her position by analyzing five different theories of disease causality that have vied for dominance during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and discusses in detail the political implications of each theory. Tesh also devotes specific chapters to the multicausal theory of disease, to health education policy in Cuba, to the 1981 air traffic controller's strike, to the debate over Agent Orange, and to an analysis of science as a belief system. Along the way she makes these prinicipal points: She criticizes as politically conservative the idea that diseases result from a multifactorial web of causes. Placing responsibility for disease prevention on society is ideological, she argues. In connection with the air traffic controllers she questions whether it is in a union's best interests to claim that workers' jobs are stressful. She shows why there are no entirely neutral answers to questions about the toxicity of environmental pollutants. In a final chapter, Tesh urges scientists to incorporate egalitarian values into their searchfor the truth, rather than pretending science can be divorced from that political ideology. Sylvia Noble Tesh, a political scientist, is on the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
0813513154
ISBN-13
9780813513157
eBay Product ID (ePID)
951715
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Hidden Arguments : Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1988
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ra394
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Nineteenth-Century Debates Chapter 2. Twentieth-Century Debates Chapter 3. A Multicausal Solution? Chapter 4. Cuba and Health Promotion Chapter 5. Air Traffic Control and Stress Chapter 6. Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Chapter 7. Individualism and Science Notes Index
Copyright Date
1988
Topic
Preventive Medicine, General, Diseases
Lccn
87-009866
Dewey Decimal
362.1/0425
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
19
Genre
Medical, Political Science
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