The Bottom Line or Public Health: Tactics Corporations Use to Influence Health and Health Policy, and What We Can Do to Counter Them - Couverture rigide

 
9780195375633: The Bottom Line or Public Health: Tactics Corporations Use to Influence Health and Health Policy, and What We Can Do to Counter Them
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195375637 ISBN 13 : 9780195375633
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2010

Synopsis

When corporations claim the same citizenship rights as human citizens, they exercise an undue influence on health policy and democratic processes. Surprisingly, the same basic repertoire of tactics has been found to be employed by corporations to effect this influence, regardless of the specific industry at work. In this book, authors from around the world reveal the range of tactics used across the corporate world that ultimately favor the bottom line over the greater good.

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 non-governmental 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Northern Arizona University

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195375637
ISBN 13 
9780195375633
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
592
Éditeur
Wiist William H.
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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