Product Description: The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the twenty-first century.In 2002, a dynamic doctor named Thomas Frieden became health commissioner of New York City. With support from the new mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Frieden and his health department team prohibited smoking in bars, outlawed trans fats in restaurants, and attempted to cap the size of sodas, among other groundbreaking actions...read more

A groundbreaking look at the state of America's medicine argues that environmental factors are the biggest factor affecting the nation's health and suggests that some industries are particularly hazardous to the collective well-being in the U.S. Reprint.