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Publication Date: 1983
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Public Access to Health Information: A Psychoanalyst's View.
Kay, Paul
RQ, v22 n4 p400-08 Sum 1983
Examines cultural and personal factors which may affect an individual's request for medical information from a librarian and the concept of the librarian as "educator-catalyst" working with health care professionals, highlighting self-destructive tendencies of society, negative effects of some advertising, the flood tide of health information, and the librarian's options. (EJS)
Descriptors: Advertising, Health, Health Education, Information Needs, Librarians, Library Role, Library Services, Patients, Reference Services
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Language: English
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