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Title The bottom line or public health : tactics corporations use to influence health and health policy, and what we can do to counter them / edited by William H. Wiist
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 570 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary "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. However, there is a growing global movement to counter this corporate force. The book discusses the role of nongovernmental organizations, Indigenous peoples' groups, health advocates, and social justice activists, and the ways in which they are working to reduce corporate power and put control of policy back in the hands of individuals." "The Bottom Line or Public Health is for scholars interested in studying the corporate entity, and for individuals and organizations who want to reclaim democracy for human citizens so that health is placed above the bottom line."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Public health -- Citizen participation.
Public health -- Economic aspects
Public health advisory groups.
Consumer protection.
Medical policy.
Health promotion.
Marketing.
Marketing -- United States
Organizational Policy -- United States
Health Promotion -- United States
Consumer Advocacy -- United States
Health Policy -- United States
Industry -- organization & administration -- United States
Consumer Advocacy
Health Policy
Health Promotion
Industry -- organization & administration
Marketing
Organizational Policy
marketing.
MEDICAL -- Physicians.
Public health advisory groups
Medical policy
Marketing
Health promotion
Consumer protection
Public health -- Citizen participation
Public health -- Economic aspects
Gesundheitsförderung
Gesundheitspolitik
Direkte Demokratie
SUBJECT United States
Form Electronic book
Author Wiist, William H.
LC no. 2010278430
ISBN 9780195375633
0195375637
9780199704927
0199704929