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Health Education Research, Vol. 18, No. 5, 637-638, October 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press

Book Review

Book Reviews

Community-Based Participatory Research for Health
M. Minkler and N. Wallerstein (eds)
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2002
490 pp. ISBN 0-7879-6457-3 (pb)

Jay Maddock

Co-Director and Assistant Professor, Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, Specialization Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Can research and practice co-exist? Is research with no a priori hypotheses or significance tests really research? What can scientists learn from the homeless about conducting research? Does taking pictures constitute a research project? All of these questions and more are examined in this edited work on community-based participatory research for health (CBPRH). The book explores both the conceptual and practical promises and pitfalls of CBPRH and does an excellent job tackling the issues surrounding this difficult, time-consuming, but important and rewarding research. The 19 chapters and nine appendices by dozens of different authors are particularly . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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