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The bottom line or public health : tactics corporations use to influence health and health policy, and what we can do to counter them /

"The Bottom Line or Public Health deconstructs some of the most ubiquitous tactics at play, including public relations, political influence, legal maneuvering, and financial power, using the pharmaceutical, food and agriculture, tobacco, alcohol, and motor vehicle industries as illustration. Ho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wiist, William H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The corporation : an overview of what it is, its tactics, and what public health can do / William H. Wiist
  • Corporations, public health, and the historical landscape that defines our challenge / Shelley K. White
  • Limited liability and the public's health / Lainie Rutkow and Stephen P. Teret
  • Public relations and advertising / Diane Farsetta
  • Lobbying, the revolving door, and campaign contributions : the center for responsive politics / William H. Wiist
  • The tobacco industry / Ruth E. Malone
  • The pharmaceutical industry, disease industry : a prescription for illness and death / David Egilman and Emily Ardolino
  • Motor vehicle industry / Leon S. Robertson
  • Alcohol industry interests, global trade agreements, and their impact on public health / Donald W. Zeigler
  • Food and agriculture industry / Judith A. Pojda
  • Using charters to redesign corporations in the public interest / Charlie Cray
  • A new democracy in action / Mari Margil
  • Legal strategies : you are what they say you are eating / Stephen Gardner and Katherine A. Campbell
  • Anticorporate social movements : a global phenomenon / Thomas E. Mertes
  • Labor movement strategies to address corporate globalization / Jane Lethbridge
  • Campaigns to change health-damaging corporate practices / Nicholas Freudenberg
  • Public health infrastructure : toward a blueprint for change / Rene I. Jahiel
  • Indigenous peoples' movements / Raymundo D. Rovillos
  • The new politics of consumption : promoting sustainability in the American market place / Maurie J. Cohen, Aaron Comrov and Brian Hoffner
  • Spiritual activism and liberation spirituality : pathways to collective liberation / Claudia Horwitz and Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey.