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Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health
Nicholas Freudenberg
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Description for Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health
Hardcover. Lethal but Legal examines how corporations have impacted - and plagued - public health over the last century, first in industrialized countries and now in developing regions. The reforms outlined here aim to strike a healthier balance between large companies' right to make a profit and governments' responsibility to protect their populations. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: KJG; MBN; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 584.
Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility to protect public health by privatizing key services, weakening regulations, and cutting funding for consumer and environmental protection. Today's corporations are increasingly free to make decisions that benefit their bottom line at the expense of public health. Lethal but Legal examines how corporations have impacted -- and plagued -- public health over the last ... Read more
Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility to protect public health by privatizing key services, weakening regulations, and cutting funding for consumer and environmental protection. Today's corporations are increasingly free to make decisions that benefit their bottom line at the expense of public health. Lethal but Legal examines how corporations have impacted -- and plagued -- public health over the last ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199937196
SKU
V9780199937196
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99-9
About Nicholas Freudenberg
Nicholas Freudenberg, PhD, MPH, is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College and founder and director of Corporations and Health Watch (www.corporationsandhealth.org), an international network of activists and researchers that monitors the business practices of the alcohol, automobile, firearms, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and tobacco industries.
Reviews for Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health
Lethal But Legal has scholarly merit and marshals compelling evidence to support its central thesis.
Bonnie Stabile, George Mason University; World Medical and Health Policy
Lethal but Legal is the first to connect the dots between unhealthy products, business-dominated politics, and the growing burdens of disease and health care costs ... this book provides readers with the insights ... Read more
Bonnie Stabile, George Mason University; World Medical and Health Policy
Lethal but Legal is the first to connect the dots between unhealthy products, business-dominated politics, and the growing burdens of disease and health care costs ... this book provides readers with the insights ... Read more