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According to Thompson, humans are living in a new phase of life called the Information Age or the Age of Risk Management. In the book’s introduction, she describes this phase as “a time in human history where we recognize that life is full of risks, choices often involve tough trade-offs, and good data and risk analysis play a critical role in the decisions we make as individuals and collectively...
Each of the book’s 12 chapters addresses one risk associated with this new age, such as “Risk in the Media” and “Health care in the U.S.” Thompson begins the chapters with her own words of wisdom about assessing and managing the risk, followed by relevant and insightful quotations from scientists, authors, politicians and other famous people including Albert Einstein, Maya Angelou, Mark Twain and Sir Winston Churchill...
...love the cartoon on the cover because sometimes it really does feel like there is a medical news story of the day,” Thompson says. “For many people, they have to realize that the information that’s coming doesn’t have that context and my hope is that the book will help empower health consumers to really ask better questions and to start to realize that the choices that they make and how they get information and how they use it is really important for their health...
...Thompson says she wanted the book to be accessible to a general audience because her job as a researcher is to “get the public back into public health...
...Thompson created a consumer’s guide called “Taking Charge of Health Information,” which appears at the beginning of Risk In Perspective. The original guide included four cartoons, and its publication sparked the idea of assembling an entire book of cartoons...