Publication

2001-08-01 - Transaction Publishers

Language

English

Word Count

50,500 words, Guess

Page Count

202 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • OCLC Control Number1004114750
  • OCLC Control Number46975022
  • Better World BooksO8-CQO-697
  • Better World Books9780765800749
  • Open LibraryOL8055614M

Classifications

  • LCCRA5.K66 B46 2001
  • LCCRA5.K66B46 2001
  • LCCRA5.K66 D556 2017

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.

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