Propaganda in the helping professions [electronic resource] / Eileen Gambrill.
By: Gambrill, Eileen D.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: ix, 581 p.Subject(s): Professional employees | Consumer confidence | Propaganda | Persuasion (Psychology) | Consumer educationGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 650.101/4 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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