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Health Education Research, Vol. 16, No. 1, 101-102, February 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Health Work with the Poor—A Practical Guide

Christie W. Kiefer Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2000, 240 pp. ISBN 0-8135-2777-5 (pb)

Stephen Weeks

Primary Nurse, South Leeds Community Unit Day Hospital, Community & Mental Health Services, Leeds

As a Professor of Anthropology, Kiefer would appear to be well placed to consider the importance of health work with the poor. His background knowledge, linked with an evident concern, makes this an ultimately rewarding read, but the journey is not for the faint-hearted.

Even today the idea remains that England and America are divided by a common language, which makes this an important work, straddling as it does the combined specialisms of health care and social work. Where phraseology and spellings differ (I admit to thinking the title was intended to be `Health . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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