The exploitation of autoimmune disease: breast implant litigation and its dire implications for women's health
| Autor: | Elizabeth B. Connell |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Autoimmune disease
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Breast Implants Liability Legal Disease medicine.disease Silicon Dioxide Truth Disclosure law.invention Autoimmune Diseases law Immunology Health care Breast implant Medicine Junk science Humans Women's Health Ethics Medical Female Mass Media business Psychiatry |
| Zdroj: | Journal of women's health. 7(3) |
| ISSN: | 1059-7115 |
| Popis: | Men, women, and children are subject to a number of disease conditions that have been documented over many centuries. Among the most recently described and the least understood of these conditions are autoimmune diseases. As we unfortunately have seen in recent years, the obscure nature of autoimmune disorders has allowed scientific distortion by individuals who stand to profit by claiming a cause-and-effect relationship among some types of autoimmune conditions and a number of medical products, resulting in a rapidly expanding use of "junk science" in our courtrooms. Attempts have been made recently to implicate a number of environmental factors in the development of autoimmune disorders, most notably silicone gel-filled breast implants. The controversies surrounding these alleged relationships have proved to be among the most contentious, costly, and dangerous events ever to occur in women's health care. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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