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Edited by D. Russell Crane and Elaine S. Marshall. 530 pp. Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage Publications, 2006. $125. ISBN 0-7619-3041-8.

The relationship of families to the health and health care of an individual family member is a topic whose clarity diminishes as its study intensifies. Families have many structures and a variety of functional styles, and the confusion between association and causality in how family structure and function relate to the health of a family member is legendary. Families are a source of pathology; a vector for disease; a source of competition for resources and possible ethical conflicts; a unit of health insurance coverage; a frequent casualty of the stress of catastrophic illness or injury; and the primary sociologic unit . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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