Fallacies in Medicine and Health

Louise Cummings is Professor in the Department of English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. She has published and edited 18 books in public health reasoning, communication disorders, pragmatics, and clinical linguistics. She is Visiting Professor at York St John University in the UK, and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.

• Chapter 1: Critical Thinking in Medicine and Health.- Chapter 2: Arguing from Ignorance.- Chapter 3: Slippery Slope Arguments.- Chapter 4: Fear Appeal Arguments.- Chapter 5: Appeals to Expertise.- Chapter 6: Argument from Analogy.- Chapter 7: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc.