Medicine and the media: How the media and animal rights activists put avalanche burial study on ice

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 341, Issue 7764, 2010, Pages 133-

  Paal, Peter ^a   Braun, Patrick ^a   Brugger, Hermann ^b   Strappazzon, Giacomo ^b   Falk, Markus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^c Inova Q   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL RIGHTS; DEATH; DISASTER; FATALITY; MASS MEDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUSTRIA; ETHICS; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOTHERMIA; MOUNTAINEERING; PUBLIC OPINION; SWINE;

SNOW;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL RIGHTS; ANIMALS; ASPHYXIA; AUSTRIA; DISASTERS; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOTHERMIA; MASS MEDIA; MOUNTAINEERING; PUBLIC OPINION; SNOW; SWINE;

EID: 77954641669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c3778     Document Type: Short Survey

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