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With science denial as a rising danger to public health, Sara E.
Gorman and Jack M. Gorman analyze society's resistance to
scientific evidence relating to health and safety, and the tools to
combat these tendencies. Why do some parents decide not to
vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home,
despite ample evidence that doing so increases the risk of a
gun-related injury? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses
that antibiotics cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to
health, many people believe that science is wrong, that the
evidence is incomplete, and that unidentified hazards lurk
everywhere. In Denying to the Grave, Sara Gorman and Jack Gorman
explore the psychology of health science denial. Using several
examples as case studies, they propose six key principles that may
lead people to reject "accepted" health-related wisdom: the
charismatic leader; fear of complexity; confirmation bias; fear of
corporate and government conspiracies; causality and filling the
ignorance gap; and the nature of risk prediction. This fully
updated and expanded new edition of Denying to the Grave reviews
the most recent research on health science denial, offering a brand
new chapter on how the contemporary "assault on science" waged by
certain political administrations has eroded public trust in
national health and science agencies, such as CDC, FDA, and EPA.
Also new to this edition is a chapter investigating the
relationship between health crises and misinformation, and what
happens to science denial amidst a global public health crisis.
Finally, the book proposes a novel approach to counteracting
misinformation and improving our ability to understand and accept
scientific consensus. In an era in which trust in science has
become more important, and yet more elusive, than ever before,
Denying to the Grave sheds light on why we often choose to ignore
scientific evidence, pointing the way toward a new understanding of
how science should be conveyed to the public in order to save lives
with existing knowledge and technology.
Neuroscience, the study of the structure and function of the brain,
has captured our imaginations. Breakthrough technologies permit
neuroscientists to probe how the human brain works in ever-more
fascinating detail, revealing what happens when we think, move,
love, hate, and fear. We know more than ever before about what goes
wrong in the brain when we develop psychiatric and neurological
illnesses like depression, dementia, epilepsy, panic attacks, and
schizophrenia. We also now have clues about how treatments for
those disorders change the way our brains look and function.
Neuroscience at the Intersection of Mind and Brain has three main
purposes. First, it makes complicated concepts and findings in
modern neuroscience accessible to anyone with an interest in how
the brain works. Second, it explains in detail how every experience
we have from the moment we are conceived changes our brains. Third,
it advances the idea that psychotherapy is a type of life
experience that alters brain function and corrects aberrant brain
connections. Among the topics covered are: what makes our brains
different from those of other primates, our nearest genetic
neighbors? How do life's experiences affect genetic expression of
the brain and the way neurons connect with each other? Why are
connections between different parts of the brain important in both
health and disease? What happens in the brains of animals and
humans when we are suddenly afraid of something, get depressed, or
fall in love? How do medications and psychotherapies work? The
information in this book is based on cutting-edge research in
neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology. Written by an author who
studied human behavior and brain function for three decades, it is
presented in a highly accessible manner, full of personal anecdotes
and observations, and touches on many of the controversies in
contemporary mental health practice.
The Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry: A Paradigm for
Integrated Care is the first book to provide insight into the
interface between the psychiatric, medical, and social dimensions
of HIV and AIDS and the need for a compassionate, integrated, and
approach to the HIV pandemic with an emphasis on humanizing
destigmatizing HIV. Drawing from the expertise of 135 contributors
in clinical and evidence-based medicine, the book provides
information on the prevalence, incidence, medical and psychiatric
aspects of HIV, as well as on the prevention and care of persons
with HIV/AIDS.
Like its predecessors, this fourth edition of A Guide to Treatments
That Work offers detailed chapters that review the latest research
on pharmacological and psychosocial treatments that work for the
full range of psychiatric and psychological disorders, written in
most instances by clinical psychologists and psychiatrists who have
been major contributors to that literature. Similarly, the
standards by which the authors were asked to evaluate the
methodological rigor of the research on treatments have also
remained the same. Each chapter in A Guide to Treatments That Work
follows the same general outline: a review of diagnostic cues to
the disorder, a discussion of changes in the nomenclatures from
DSM-IV to DSM-5, and then a systematic review of research, most of
which has been reported within the last few years, that represents
the evidence base for the treatments reviewed. In all, 26 of the
volume's 28 chapters review the evidence base for 17 major
syndromes. Featuring this coverage is a Summary of Treatments that
Work, an extended matrix offering a ready reference by syndrome of
the conclusions reached by the chapter authors on treatments that
work reviewed in their chapters. New to this edition are two
chapters at the beginning of the book. Chapter 1 details two
perplexing issues raised by critics of DSM-5: the unrealized
potential of neuroscience biomarkers to yield more accurate and
reliable diagnoses and the lingering problem of conflicts of
interest in pharmaceutical research. Chapter 2 contrasts Native
American and western ways of identifying effective treatments for
mental and physical disorders, concluding that "evidence-informed
culture-based" interventions sometimes constitute best practices in
Native communities. Two chapters detailing pharmacological
treatments for pediatric bipolar disorder (Chapter 9) and pediatric
depressive disorder (Chapter 12) have also been added. More than
three quarters of the chapters are written by colleagues who also
contributed to most or all of the previous editions. Hence, this
new edition provides up-to-date information on the quality of
research on treatment efficacy and effectiveness provided by
individuals who know the research best.
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