Lethal but legal : corporations, consumption, and protecting public health / Nicholas Freudenberg.
Lethal but legal : corporations, consumption, and protecting public health / Nicholas Freudenberg.
Lethal but legal : corporations, consumption, and protecting public health / Nicholas Freudenberg.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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G 2014/3564
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Manufacturing disease : unhealthy products become ubiquitous -- The public health evidence : how corporate practices contribute to global epidemics of chronic disease and injuries -- Corporations take control : a new political and economic order emerges -- The corporate consumption complex -- The co...
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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England
Date Published
[2014]
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Summary
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 privatizin...
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Lethal but legal : corporations, consumption, and protecting public health / Nicholas Freudenberg.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2014/3564
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74VKveZgpbGA
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ISBN
0199937192 (alk. paper)
9780199937196 (alk. paper)
DDC
362.1
MMS ID
991021697409702626
