Smoke signals : : selected writing / / Simon Chapman.
Smoke Signals gathers 71 of Professor Simon Chapman’s authoritative, acerbic and often heretical essays from across his 40-year career. They cover major developments and debates in tobacco control, public health ethics, cancer screening, gun control, and panics about low risk agents such as wi-fi, m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Sydney : : Sydney University Press ; :, Darlington Press,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 385 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1 Never say die?
- 2 The paradox of prevention
- 3 The commodification of prevention
- 4 A testing time for prostate
- 5 Prostate screening not worth it
- 6 Why do doctors keep silent about their own prostate cancer decisions?
- 7 How famous faces muddle the message on cancer
- 8 Patient consent in spectator surgery not the only consideration
- 9 Does celebrity involvement in public health campaigns deliver long-term benefit? Yes
- 10 A nation of flashers should show some modesty
- 11 A long, winding road to end the carnage
- 12 Drink and drive? Not the publican’s problem
- 13 The AIDS myth that will not die
- 14 A shattering of glass in Tasmania
- 15 Gun lobby on shaky ground
- 6 Now, about those guns . . .
- 17 150 ways (and counting) that the nanny state is good for us
- 18 Tardis travelling into David Leyonhjelm’s post-nanny state dystopia
- 19 Torture by omission
- 20 It’s the government’s call over phone tower debate
- 21 No, we’re not all being pickled in deadly radiation from smartphones and wi-fi
- 22 Wind turbine sickness prevented by the money drug
- 23 Wind turbine syndrome: a classic “communicated” disease
- 24 Questions a prominent wind farm critic needs to answer
- 25 Chilean earthquakes in Australia and other wacky myths from wind farm opponents
- 26 Let’s appoint a judge to investigate bizarre wind farm health claims
- 27 Tragedy puts values at threat
- 28 Charities to be seen but no longer heard?
- 29 Reflections on a 38-year career in public health advocacy: ten pieces of advice to early-career researchers and advocates
- 30 Unravelling gossamer with boxing gloves: problems in explaining the decline in smoking
- 31 The banality of tobacco deaths
- 32 Smokers spend, then pay with their lives
- 33 Death of a Fat Lady
- 34 Stop-smoking clinics: a case for their abandonment
- 35 The inverse impact law of smoking cessation
- 36 Quitting unassisted: the 50-year neglect of a major health phenomenon
- 37 Is it time to stop subsidising nicotine replacement therapies?
- 38 The ethics of the cash register: taking tobacco industry research dollars
- 39 Smoke screen
- 40 It’s smokers, better still those trying to quit, who should benefit
- 41 Corporate responsibility is fast becoming a smoke-free zone
- 42 The problem with selling a lethal product: you just can’t get the staff
- 43 International tobacco control should repudiate Jekyll and Hyde health philanthropy
- 44 When will the tobacco industry apologise for its galactic harms?
- 45 Smoking bastions set to crumble
- 46 Why even “wowsers” argue about smoke bans
- 47 How Santa and the Tooth Fairy collaborated to allow smoking at casino
- 48 Is a smoking ban in UK parks and outdoor spaces a good idea?
- 49 Are today’s smokers really more “hardened”?
- 50 Light cigarettes – deadly despite the name
- 51 Matter of smoke and hire
- 52 Butt clean-up campaigns: wolves in sheep’s clothing?
- 53 Silver screen lights up with a deadly hidden message
- 54 What should be done about smoking in movies?
- 55 Four arguments against the adult-rating of movies with smoking scenes
- 56 Factoids and legal bollocks in the war against plain packaging
- 57 The slow-burn, devastating impact of tobacco plain packaging
- 58 Pleased as Punch: interview with the tobacco industry
- 59 The case for a smoker’s licence
- 60 E-cigarettes: the best and the worst case scenarios for public health
- 61 Spotless leopards? Decoding hype on e-cigarettes
- 62 Ten myths about smoking that will not die
- 63 Ten more myths about smoking that will not die
- 64 Letters to editors
- 65 Bertrand Russell’s Why I am not a Christian: a book that changed me
- 66 Why do researchers donate their time and money to help private conference organisers make big bucks?
- 67 Why I block trolls on Twitter
- 68 Publishing horror stories: time to euthanase paper-based journals?
- 69 My mother’s death
- 70 Dying with dignity with dementia
- 71 Can academics ever retire?