814 - Book Club—The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health in America
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The rise of misinformation and the appeal of "alternative medicine" is coupled with a decline in trust of the U.S. health care system. In a new book, Dr. Sara Gorman explains how an inaccessible health care system has fed the rise of misinformation and what policymakers and providers need to do to earn back some credibility.
Guests:
Dr. Sara Gorman is a public health researcher and author of a new book called "The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health in America."
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
Show links and related content:
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Who is most vulnerable to misinformation?—Psychology Today
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The burden of medical debt in the United States—Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
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A Playbook For Addressing Health Misinformation—Public Health On Call (March, 2024)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh. |
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| 0:23.6 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:29.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:32.6 | Today, a different perspective on trust. |
| 0:36.6 | Dr. Sarah Gorman is a public health researcher and author of a new |
| 0:40.6 | book called The Anatomy of Deception, Conspiracy theories, Distrust, and Public Health in America. |
| 0:47.3 | She talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about her perspective of why trust in health care has been |
| 0:52.1 | falling and why conspiracy theories have been spreading. |
| 0:56.4 | Spoiler alert, it's not the usual conversation we've been having in public health. Let's listen. |
| 1:02.5 | Dr. Sarah Gorman, thank you so much for joining me today in public health on call to talk about trust in the health care system and your new book. |
| 1:11.0 | Now, trust in the health care system has been a big topic since the pandemic. |
| 1:15.0 | A lot of articles written about it, a lot of meetings about it, a lot of concern, appropriate |
| 1:20.0 | concern as the surveys come back showing that people are not trusting the medical system |
| 1:26.4 | and turning to all kinds of alternative ideas |
| 1:30.3 | without evidence. |
| 1:31.3 | What's the typical conversation that's going on about what this issue is involving? |
| 1:36.3 | Sure. |
| 1:37.3 | The typical conversation tends to focus on why have people lost trust in the healthcare system? |
| 1:42.3 | What has happened to them that has caused |
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