Saving Gotham
A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives
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Christopher Price
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Tom Farley
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The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the 21st 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. The initiatives drew heated criticism, but they worked: by 2011, 450,000 people had quit smoking, childhood obesity rates were falling, and life expectancy was growing. Saving Gotham is the behind-the-scenes story of the most controversial - and successful - public health initiative of our time. Thomas A. Farley, MD, who succeeded Frieden as health commissioner, introduces a team of doctors who accepted the challenge of public health: to care for each of New York City's eight million inhabitants as their own patients. The biggest threats they faced were not cholera or chemical toxins or lack of medical care but instead habits like smoking and unhealthy eating. As these doctors pressed to solve these problems, they found themselves battling those who encouraged those habits, and they reshaped their own agency for a different sort of fight.
Farley shows what happens when science-driven doctors are given the political cover to make societywide changes to protect people from today's health risks - and how industries exploit legislatures, the courts, the media, and public opinion to undermine them. With Washington caught in partisan paralysis and New York City's ideas spreading around the world, Saving Gotham demonstrates how government - local government - can protect its citizens and transform health for everyone.
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- Audrey K.
- 14.12.2020
Could not put it down!
This book is incredibly well written and interesting. I expected it to he a bit dry but it was not at all! I could not stop listening! It was interesting to get into the daily work of public health officials and how much lobbying and companies influence policy. This book shows that through hard work and ideas, we can do something good and leap over the hurdles that exist in the "real world". It is an absolute must read for anyone in the field of public health--- there is no reason to stay in your bubble. Get out there and save lives in your community!
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