Smoking, Health And Personality Av Hans Eysenck

Smoking, Health And Personality Av Hans Eysenck

The Report on Smoking and Health published by the Royal College of Physicians in England in 1965 warned of a connection between lung -cancer and smoking. The findings were widely publicized, and were accepted by practically every-one-indeed, they persist today. As Hans J. Eysenck shows in his classic study Smoking, Health, an......
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The Report on Smoking and Health published by the Royal College of Physicians in England in 1965 warned of a connection between lung -cancer and smoking. The findings were widely publicized, and were accepted by practically every-one-indeed, they persist today. As Hans J. Eysenck shows in his classic study Smoking, Health, and Personality, the results were by no means immune to challenge. Not only were the experimental and statistical methods employed vulnerable to criticism, but the results were open to more than one interpretation.In this new edition, Stuart Brody reviews Eysenck''s achievement. Eysenck critically reviewed the literature, presented longitudinal studies showing that psychological characteristics are far more potent predictors of heart disease and cancer than smoking behavior, and demonstrated that psychological treatment can halve death rates. Eysenck also spoke the unspeakable, iconoclastically attacking the cherished attribution of millions of deaths to smoking. He
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The Report on Smoking and Health published by the Royal College of Physicians in England in 1965 warned of a connection between lung -cancer and smoking. The findings were widely publicized, and were accepted by practically every-one-indeed, they persist today. As Hans J. Eysenck shows in his classic study Smoking, Health, and Personality, the results were by no means immune to challenge. Not only were the experimental and statistical methods employed vulnerable to criticism, but the results were open to more than one interpretation.In this new edition, Stuart Brody reviews Eysenck''s achievement. Eysenck critically reviewed the literature, presented longitudinal studies showing that psychological characteristics are far more potent predictors of heart disease and cancer than smoking behavior, and demonstrated that psychological treatment can halve death rates. Eysenck also spoke the unspeakable, iconoclastically attacking the cherished attribution of millions of deaths to smoking. He examined the interaction of smoking with personality and constitutional factors, and the connection between these factors and the development of cancer. Eysenck saw the cause-and-effect relation between cancer and smoking as oversimplification. He also makes a number of practical suggestions for the kind of social action that could be taken to decrease the incidence of lung cancer. For his part, Brody notes that massive campaigns which exhort people to eschew tobacco or cholesterol have had little or no demonstrable health benefits.This original and stimulating volume is written with great clarity and is easily understood by the layman. It is an incisive account of one of the most important social problems in this country today, and a challenge to orthodoxy in the medical world. As such, this volume offers much for both sides of the anti-smoking lobby, as well as those in the fields of psychology, political science, and sociology. .

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Smoking, Health And Personality Av Hans Eysenck er et banebrytende verk som utfordrer vante oppfatninger om røyking, helse og personlighetspsykologi. Eysenck tar et kritisk blikk på de tradisjonelle påstandene om røykingens effekt på helsen vår, og viser at sammenhengen mellom røyking og sykdommer som lungekreft kan være mer komplisert enn tidligere antatt.

Kritisk Analyse av Røyking og Helse

Gjennom sin forskning presenterer Eysenck:

  • Langsgående studier som viser at psykologiske egenskaper er mer avgjørende for sykdomsutvikling enn røyking alene.
  • Kritikk av de metoder som har blitt brukt for å etablere forbindelsen mellom røyking og helseskader.
  • Innovative tilnærminger til behandling som kan halvere dødsrater knyttet til røyking.

En Utfordring Mot Etablerte Sannheter

Eysenck våger å gå mot strømmen. Han ser på røyking i sammenheng med personlighet og konstitusjonelle faktorer, noe som åpner for nye forståelser av hvordan vi bør tenke om dette fenomenet. Han stiller spørsmål ved den oversimplifiserte årsakssammenhengen som ofte tilskrives røyking og cancerutvikling.

Praktiske Anbefalinger for Sosial Handling

Med sin undersøkelser tilbyr Eysenck pragmatisk innsikt i hvordan samfunnet kan redusere forekomsten av lungekreft, og han oppfordrer til en ny tilnærming til hvordan helseopplysning bør fremmes.

Hvorfor Velge Dette Verket?

Dette originalverket er ikke bare en akademisk studie; det er en lettfattelig, tankevekkende og relevant bok for både forskningsinteresserte og vanlige lesere. Med klarhet og innsikt tar Eysenck opp en av de mest presserende utfordringene i vår tid – røykingens rolle i helse og velvære.

Ønsker du å forstå røyking i et nytt lys? Smoking, Health And Personality Av Hans Eysenck gir deg verktøyene til å navigere i denne komplekse debatten. Enten du er aktiv forsker eller bare nysgjerrig, vil du finne uendelig med verdifull informasjon i denne boken!

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