Nicholas Freudenberg, PhD, MPH, is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College and founder and director of Corporations and Health Watch (www.corporationsandhealth.org), an international network of activists and researchers that monitors the business practices of the alcohol, automobile, firearms, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and tobacco industries.

Lethal But Legal has scholarly merit and marshals compelling evidence to support its central thesis.

• 1. Manufacturing Disease: Unhealth Products Become Ubiquitous 2. The Public Health Evidence: How Corporate Practices Contribute to Global Epidemics of Chronic Disease and Injuries 3. Corporations Take Control: A New Political and Economic Order Emerges 4. The Corporate Consumption Complex 5. The Corporate Ideology of Consumption 6. The Health Impact of Corporate Managed Globalization 7. Optimism Past, Present, and Future: The Buiding Blocks for a Movement 8. Wanted: A Movement for a Healther, More Sustainable Future Afterword

Nicholas Freudenberg, PhD, MPH, is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College and founder and director of Corporations and Health Watch (www.corporationsandhealth.org), an international network of activists and researchers that monitors the business practices of the alcohol, automobile, firearms, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and tobacco industries.

Lethal But Legal has scholarly merit and marshals compelling evidence to support its central thesis.

• 1. Manufacturing Disease: Unhealth Products Become Ubiquitous 2. The Public Health Evidence: How Corporate Practices Contribute to Global Epidemics of Chronic Disease and Injuries 3. Corporations Take Control: A New Political and Economic Order Emerges 4. The Corporate Consumption Complex 5. The Corporate Ideology of Consumption 6. The Health Impact of Corporate Managed Globalization 7. Optimism Past, Present, and Future: The Buiding Blocks for a Movement 8. Wanted: A Movement for a Healther, More Sustainable Future Afterword