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By Steven Jonas. 144 pp. New York, Springer Publishing, 2000. $38.95. ISBN 0-8261-1338-9.

This book is an important contribution to the growing literature on health promotion and disease prevention. It successfully brings together the theoretical basis of health promotion and disease prevention and practical formulas for changing the behavior of patients. Clinicians will find it a well-balanced primer. In the foreword to the book, Breslow observes that most physicians now in practice were educated in the "complaint–response circumstance." By this he means that clinical encounters are driven by responses consisting largely of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Such reactions are frequent in tertiary care, in which established disease is treated. By contrast, Talking about . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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