Abstract

At eighty-seven years of age, former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has an extraordinary perspective on health and medicine in America. He reflects on child health from his thirty-five years as a pediatric surgeon; AIDS from his position as Surgeon General at the outset of the epidemic; Presidents Reagan and Clinton, with whom he worked extensively; and smoking from his long battle first in government and then later as public antagonist to what he sees as the duplicitous and deceptive "killer" industry: tobacco.

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