Taken to Extremes: Newspapers and Kevorkian’s Televised Euthanasia Incident

Book Description: Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources—from news reports to Web sites to tv shows—for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical te...

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Autor principal: Caplan, Arthur L (Autor)
Otros Autores: Turow, Joseph
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2004
En:Año: 2004
Acceso en línea: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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