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Health Education Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, 138-139, February 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Promoting the Health of Older People

Anthony Chiva and David Stears (eds) Open University Press, Buckingham, 2001 151 pp. ISBN 0 335 20438 4 (pb)

Stephen Weeks

South Leeds Community Unit Day Hospital

There is perhaps something quite ironic about a book that continues a tradition of easy reading, in format, content and style, but has the reader (or the reviewer, in this case) reaching for a dictionary to check the second word of a title page. The contents, notes on contributors (impressive enough to whet the appetite), Series Editor's preface (Gearing), foreword (Tones) and acknowledgements all lead towards the Editors' opening gambit: `The proem to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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