Consumer Health:
Eighth Edition References

The eight edition of Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions is cheduled for publication in 2006. Meanwhile, as its chapter reference lists are developed, we will post them to help current users of the book locate supplementary information. These lists contain links to full-text versions or abstracts of many of the cited references. The abstracts are located on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed site, which provides another way to locate additional information by clicking on the "Related Articles" link to the right of the citation. Note that the Arthritis chapter in the seventh edition has been eliminated so that the chapter numbers from 17 to 25 do not correspond with those of the seventh edition.

    1. Consumer health issues
    2. Separating fact from fiction
    3. Frauds and quackery
    4. Advertising and other marketing practices
    5. Science-based health care
    6. Mental health care
    7. Dental care
    8. The "CAM" movement
    9. Self-care
    10. Health-care facilities
    11. Basic nutrition concepts
    12. Nutrition fads, fallacies, and scams
    13. Weight control
    14. Fitness concepts, products, and services
    15. Cardiovascular diseases
    16. Cancer
    17. HIV/AIDS
    18. Drug products
    19. Skin care and image enhancement
    20. Sexual and reproductive health
    21. Health devices
    22. Coping with death
    23. Health insurance
    24. Health care economics
    25. Consumer laws, agencies, and strategies

This page was revised on October 10, 2005.

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