NEW BOOKS

INTRODUCTIONS & OVERVIEWS

An Ethic for Health Promotion: Rethinking the Sources of Human Well-Being

David Ross Buchanan, January 2000, HC, Oxford Univ. Press, $42.50

Clean Living Movements: American Cycles of Health Reform

Ruth Clifford Engs, August 2001, PB, Greenwood Publishing Group, $24.95

Health as Expanding Consciousness

Margaret Newman, March 1999, PB, iUniverse, $31.95

Talking About Health and Wellness with Patients: Integrating Health Promotion and Disease Prevention into Your Practice

Steven Jonas, July 2000, PB, Springer Publishing Co., $29.95

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(The following excerpts are reprinted with the kind permission of the author and the Springer Publishing Company)

• CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION
  
  
  • I. What's It All About?
    
    
  • II. What This Book Is About
    
    
  • III. The Organization of This Book
    
    
  • IV. The Ten Central Concepts of Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
    
    
• CHAPTER 2 - WHAT ARE HEALTH AND WELLNESS?
  
  
  • I. Definitions of Health
    
    
    • A. Different Uses of the Term
      
      
    • B. The Greek View
      
      
    • C. The Modern Western View
      
      
    • D. Some Non-Western Approaches
      
      
    • E. Approaching a Comprehensive Definition
      
      
  • II. The Purpose of Being Healthy
    
    
  • III. Definitions of Disease and Illness
    
    
  • IV. Some Social Factors in Health and Illness
    
    
  • V. Definitions and Descriptions of Wellness
    
    
  • VI. Getting on the Wellness Road
    
    
  • References