Propaganda in the helping professions
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Propaganda in the helping professions : what is it and why should you care?
- Context, actors, and scripts
- Introduction to the players
- Interactions among the players
- Propaganda analysis : different levels
- Consequences of propaganda
- A Rogue's gallery of harms related to propaganda in the helping professions
- The medicalization of life
- How they reel us in
- Obscure different views of knowledge and how to get it
- Appeal to popular grand narratives and metaphors
- Disguise advertisements as professional literature
- Propagandistic use of language and social psychological persuasion
- Strategies
- Appeal to our psychological vulnerabilities
- What you can do
- Enhance your argument analysis skills
- Increase your skill in spotting fallacies
- Increase your skill in searching for answers for yourself
- Notes
- References
- Index.