The media and anti-aging medicine: Witch-hunt, uncritical reporting or fourth estate?

Medicine Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-247

  Spindler, Mone ^a   Streubel, Christiane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

American Academy of Anti Aging Medicine; Anti aging medicine; German Society of Anti Aging Medicine; Mass media; Methuselah Foundation; Press coverage; Transatlantic learning processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921707803     PISSN: 18764533     EISSN: 18764541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12376-009-0028-2     Document Type: Article

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