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Business, Government and Society: A Managerial Perspective, 11th Edition
Steiner and Steiner

RESPONSE TO CHAPTER 16 – CONSUMERISM

While reading Chapter 16 of our text, I began to question the authors' biases, doubt the accuracy and thoroughness of their statements and suspect the veracity of the premises they asserted. After reading this section, I came away wanting to probe my reactions further by clarifying the source of my uneasiness.
The authors begin by describing the work of Harvey W. Wiley, MD related to testing food products for safety. Wiley's experiments, known as the "poison squad," seemed particularly troublesome, in light of a guiding principle for physicians known as "first, do no harm." Wiley was aware that his experiments (feeding subjects increasing amounts of borax, formaldehyde, etc) would definitely harm the volunteers. The authors' use of this example, while graphic and evocative, seems to present the kind of example that documentarian Michael Moore......

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