Panic is not a single state with only one set of feelings and predictable emotions. The essays and articles in this book span various disciplines psychology, medicine, literature, and history tied together by the common thread of panic, including how it is manifested in culture,…
Panic is not a single state with only one set of feelings and predictable emotions. The essays and articles in this book span various disciplines psychology, medicine, literature, and history tied together by the common thread of panic, including how it is manifested in culture,…
Empires of panic: epidemics and colonial anxieties
"'Empires of Panic' is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings-from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic …
A searing account of how vaccine opponents have used the media to spread their message of panic, despite no scientific evidence to support them
It might be possible to view Mnookin's book as the final nail in the coffin for the contemporary antivaccine movement, given its recent scientific and legal setbacks. But Mnookin's own conclusions would likely deny this; as several reviewers approvingly observed, The Panic Virus…
A searing account of how vaccine opponents have used the media to spread their message of panic, despite no scientific evidence to support them. In this searching exposé, the recent hysteria over childhood vaccinations and their alleged link to autism becomes a cautionary tale …
A searing account of how vaccine opponents have used the media to spread their message of panic, despite no scientific evidence to support them. In this searching exposé, the recent hysteria over childhood vaccinations and their alleged link to autism becomes a cautionary tale …
The spotted pimple of death -- Milkmaid envy and a fear of modernity --The polio vaccine : from medical miracle to public health catastrophe -- Fluoride scares and swine flu scandals -- "Vaccine roulette"--Autism's evoloving identities -- Help! there are fibers growing out of my…
A searing account of how vaccine opponents have used the media to spread their message of panic, despite no scientific evidence to support them. In this searching exposé, the recent hysteria over childhood vaccinations and their alleged link to autism becomes a cautionary tale …
"On Halloween night 1938, Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells fantasy, The War of the Worlds. What listeners heard sounded so realistic that at least a million were frightened by word that "strange creatures" from Mars had landed in central New Jersey and…
In 1938 Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds', causing panic amongst listeners. This text shows that the impact of the broadcast had less to do with what went out over the air than with the 'standards of judgment' people did or did not …
