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Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked Our Health

by Deborah Cohen

Health advice in the age of influencers

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Health advice in the age of influencers

Deborah Cohen examines how online personalities and health-focused entrepreneurs have moved into spaces once occupied by medical professionals. The description connects that shift to longer waits for appointments and the cost of care, while pointing to the appeal of easily accessible tools and promises involving blood sugar, sleep, focus, and weight loss. It raises questions about qualification, impartiality, regulation, and the limits of advice from people who do not know a patient’s medical history or owe them a duty of care. The book’s subject is the changing relationship between digital health information and professional care.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in consumer health and online medical information.
  • Readers concerned with influencer culture, health regulation, and access to care.

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Online health adviceInfluencer cultureMedical expertise and trustHealth-care access and regulation

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Book overview

When did we start trusting influencers over doctors?

You used to see a doctor. Now you go online.

'Uncomfortable but essential reading. Your definitive guide to separating medical facts from online fiction.' Adam Kay

Want to track your blood sugar? Your heart rate? Your sleep? You can. Need to focus? Want to lose weight fast? Everything is a click away.

But who is regulating this?

As waiting times to see doctors grow ever longer and patients are often priced out of medical care altogether, influencers have filled the gap. From doctors promoting new therapies, to entrepreneurs selling solutions, these self-styled experts glow with good health and guarantee results.

But they are not familiar with our medical history. They don't owe us a duty of care. And they're rarely either qualified or impartial. So why do we trust them?
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