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Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, And Protecting Public Health (Preface), Nicholas Freudenberg
Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, And Protecting Public Health (Preface), Nicholas Freudenberg
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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 century, first …