Koop: The Memoirs Of America's Family Doctor ***Signed***

Koop, C. Everett

ISBN 10: 0394576268 / ISBN 13: 9780394576268

Published by Random House, Inc., New York, NY, 1991

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Signed "C. Everett Koop" on first blank page in black ink. C. Everett Koop (Charles Everett Koop; ?Chick?), (born Oct. 14, 1916, Brooklyn, N.Y.?died Feb. 25, 2013, Hanover, N.H.) American public official who functioned as the self-styled ?health conscience of the country? while serving (1982?89) as U.S. surgeon general, an office that he elevated to national prominence with his bold crusade against smoking and his positions that favoured the introduction of sex education in primary schools and the use of condoms for ?safe sex? to help stem the AIDs epidemic. Koop, a devout Evangelical Christian, was appointed by Republican Pres. Ronald Reagan, and he later served briefly under Pres. George H.W. Bush. As surgeon general, however, Koop unexpectedly took positions that belied his own conservative beliefs. Though he was personally opposed to abortion, he did not believe that Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that guaranteed a woman?s right to an abortion, should be reversed. When asked by the Reagan White House to issue a report about the harmful psychological effects of abortion on women, Koop said that he had not found scientific evidence to support that position. Rather than operating as a figurehead, Koop, who sported a distinctive clipped beard, bow tie, and gold-braided blue uniform, was a highly visible media spokesperson who adopted a pragmatic approach that stressed education as the key to disease prevention. In his quest to foster a ?smoke-free society,? he released a seminal 1986 report that bluntly linked all forms of smoking, including ?secondhand smoking,? to cancer. Seller Inventory # 001757

Bibliographic Details

Title: Koop: The Memoirs Of America's Family Doctor...

Publisher: Random House, Inc., New York, NY

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

America's most popular and influential Surgeon General discusses the great medical issues of his tenure--AIDS, cancer from cigarette tobacco, and his anti-choice stance on abortion--and recounts his personal life from his early years in Brooklyn to today

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In this autobiography, Koop relates his meteoric rise to Surgeon-General in the Reagan Administration, as well as the hypocrisy of the political powers who suppressed his...

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