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Public health profiteering

Title: Public health profiteering / James T. Bennett, Thomas J. DiLorenzo.
Author: Bennett, James T.
Publication: New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, ©2001.

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DiLorenzo, Thomas J.

Description

viii, 202 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography
Popular Work
Biographies
Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-187) and index.

Contents

The Very Model of a Modern Surgeon General: How a Brilliant Pediatric Surgeon Became an Annoying and Sanctimonious Nanny -- Big Bellies, Fat Heads: The Sick Obsession with Weight -- Shape Up--Or Ship Out -- Fen-Phen and the Koop Coup -- Koop: The Brand Name -- Epilogue: Chick and Hillary.

ISBN

0765800748
9780765800749

LCCN

2001027886

OCLC

ocm46975022
46975022
SCSB-1239752

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library