Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health

by Nicholas Freudenberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199937192
• ISBN13: 9780199937196
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"