Scaring the public: fear appeal arguments in public health reasoning

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Informal Logic

• Publication date

  2012-03-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy, Sociology

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  DOI 10.22329/IL.V32I1.3146
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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