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Rev. panam. salud pública ; 29(6): 469-474, June 2011. tab
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-608279

ABSTRACT

O presente artigo discute a proliferação de curas e terapias fraudulentas que surgem e evanescem cotidianamente na Internet. A clientela dessas fraudes, vulnerabilizada pela doença e pela perspectiva da morte, utiliza a Internet para adquirir produtos que seriam possivelmente ignorados em outros contextos. Tal vulnerabilidade se liga a contingências físicas desgastantes que comprometem a capacidade de decisão. A tentativa de controlar o fenômeno das fraudes de forma estritamente racional, sem levar em conta a vulnerabilidade desse consumidor que pouco tem a perder e sem considerar suas demandas de integralidade, pode conduzir a resultados desapontadores, já que as panacéias parecem estar preenchendo os lapsos deixados por estruturas assistenciais que têm sido insensíveis à imaterialidade dos medos humanos.


This article discusses the proliferation of medical quackery and fraud appearing and disappearing daily on the Internet. The customers of these scams, made vulnerable by disease or the prospect of death, use the Internet to buy products that would probably be ignored in other contexts. This vulnerability is linked to strenuous physical demands that compromise the ability to make decisions. The attempt to control the phenomenon of fraud as strictly rational, without taking into account the vulnerability of consumers who have little to lose and not considering their demands for comprehensive care, can lead to disappointing results, since these nostrums seem to be filling the gaps left by health care structures that have been insensitive to the immaterial nature of human fears.


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Humans , Advertising , Internet , Nostrums , Quackery/prevention & control , Self Medication , Vulnerable Populations , Advertising/methods , Advertising/standards , Attitude to Health , Culture , Fraud , Information Dissemination , Patient Acceptance of Health Care , Persuasive Communication , Quackery/statistics & numerical data , Vulnerable Populations/psychology
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J Indian Med Assoc ; 1996 Nov; 94(11): 428
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-102600
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