Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked Our Health

“Deborah Cohen is a very skilled journalist, this is very deeply researched, and every chapter covers a different topic, a different disease, or a different therapy. It is hugely timely. It’s well researched, and has huge importance for the current understanding of and thinking about the future. How do we, in a world of infinite knowledge and exchange of information by way of the internet, communicate and help people to recognise good information from bad? That’s what Deborah Cohen achieves and it’s a great contribution to the field of social medicine and ways for medical researchers to communicate and understand responses.” Read more...

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