Public Health Profiteering
Publisher: Transaction Publishers; Taylor and Francis
Published: August 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780765800749
Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; Social issues; Politics - Current Events; Health officers; Biography; Public Health; Health & Fitness; Politics / Current Events; Political Process - General; Health/Fitness; USA; HEA; HEA028000; Public Policy - General; Medical / General; 1916-; Health Care Issues; United States; (Charles Everett),; Koop, C. Everett; Pediatric surgeons
Description: "The diet industry feeds on the hopes and the fears of those who need - or think that they need - to lose weight. Since the publication of the first known diet book in 1864, a host of sanctimonious preachers and self-proclaimed experts - often overweight themselves - have stoked fears of obesity effectively for both profit and political power, none more so than former surgeon general C. Everett Koop. In Public Health Profiteering James T. Bennett and Thomas J.

DiLorenzo offer a scathing and irreverent assessment of Koop's public and private career showing how a brilliant pediatric surgeon has evolved into a self-seeking and hypocritical public scold."--BOOK JACKET.