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By Geoffrey C. Kabat. 250 pp. New York, Columbia University Press, 2008. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-231-14148-2.

How health risks are investigated, perceived, and discussed is hardly objective and dispassionate. Rather, a variety of cultural, political, personal, and other factors influence which potential hazards are studied, how they are studied, and how the findings are interpreted, disseminated, and applied. In Hyping Health Risks, author Geoffrey Kabat compellingly illustrates this point and provides a sense of the dynamics involved.

The core of the book, and its greatest strength, is a set of four case studies, each centered on epidemiologic investigations of a putative health risk. These case studies are focused, respectively, on environmental causes of breast cancer, health . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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