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A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives
W. W. Norton
October 2015
On Sale: October 13, 2015
320 pages
ISBN: 0393071243
EAN: 9780393071245
Kindle: B00TMA9212
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The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign o
campaign of the twenty-
campaign o
campaign of the twenty-first century.
In 2002, a dynamic doctor named Thomas Frieden became health
health commissioner of
health
health commissioner of New York City. With support from the new may
new mayor, billionair
new may
new mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Frieden and his health
health department te
health
health department team prohibited smoking in bars, outlawed trans f
trans fats in resta
trans f
trans fats in restaurants, and attempted to cap the size of sodas,
sodas, among other
sodas,
sodas, among other groundbreaking actions. The initiatives drew he
drew heated criti
drew he
drew heated criticism, but they worked: by 2011, 450,000 people
people had quit
people
people had quit smoking, childhood obesity rates were falling
falling, and li
falling
falling, and life expectancy was growing.
Saving Gotham is the behind-the-scenes story of the most cont
controversial—
cont
controversial—and successful—public health initiative of our
our time. Tho
our
our time. Thomas A. Farley, MD, who succeeded Frieden as heal
health commi
heal
health commissioner, introduces a team of doctors who acce
accepted the challenge of public health: to care for each of N
of New Yor
of N
of New York City’s eight million inhabitants as their own pati
patients.
pati
patients. The biggest threats they faced were not cholera or c
or chemi
or c
or chemical toxins or lack of medical care but instead habi
habits like smoking and unhealthy eating. As these doctors pres
presse
pres
pressed to solve these problems, they found themselves batt
battling those who encouraged those habits, and they resh
reshaped their own agency for a different sort of fight.
Farley shows what happens when science-driven doctors are g
given the political cover to make society-wide changes to p
protect people from today’s health risks—and how industries e
e
e
exploit legislatures, the courts, the media, and public o
opinion to undermine them. With Washington caught in p
partisan paralysis and New York City’s ideas spreading a
around the world, Saving Gotham demonstrates how government
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