Childhood under siege : how big business targets children

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  • Auteur: Bakan, Joel
    Résumé:

    "In the tradition of Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death, an eye-opening work of investigative journalism that challenges our common wisdom about pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year of a baby’s life, showing how the mother and child’s wellbeing are often undermined by corporate profit margins and the private interests of the medical community."-- from publisher

    Contents:
    • The century of the child
    • Whack your soul mate and boneless girl
    • The new curriculum of childhood
    • Prescriptions for profit
    • Pom-poms for pills
    • A dangerous and unnatural experiment
    • Precautionary tales
    • In our own backyard
    • Race to nowhere
    • Narrowing minds.
    Original Publisher: New York , Toronto , Free Press , Allen Lane
    Language(s): English

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Abstract

"In the tradition of Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death, an eye-opening work of investigative journalism that challenges our common wisdom about pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year of a baby’s life, showing how the mother and child’s wellbeing are often undermined by corporate profit margins and the private interests of the medical community."-- from publisher

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New York

Toronto

Free Press

Allen Lane

Non spécifié
ISBN

9781439121207

1439121206

9780670069071

9781439121221

1439121222

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