Nicholas Freudenberg

Lethal But Legal

Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. It is both a current history of corporations' antagonism towards health and an analysis of the emerging movements that are challenging these industries' dangerous practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190495374
• ISBN-10: 0190495375
• Artikelnr.: 45330649

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Manufacturing Disease: Unhealth Products Become Ubiquitous
* 2. The Public Health Evidence: How Corporate Practices Contribute to
Global Epidemics of Chronic Disease and Injuries
* 3. Corporations Take Control: A New Political and Economic Order
Emerges
* 4. The Corporate Consumption Complex
* 5. The Corporate Ideology of Consumption
* 6. The Health Impact of Corporate Managed Globalization
* 7. Optimism Past, Present, and Future: The Buiding Blocks for a
Movement
* 8. Wanted: A Movement for a Healther, More Sustainable Future
* Afterword