Family Practice Vol. 19, No. 5, 568
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Book review |
Cultivating health: cultural perspectives on promoting health.
Malcolm MacLachlan (ed.). (240 pages, hardback £45.) John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2001. ISBN 0-471-97725-X.
Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham
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As a cautionary example of inept, culturally insensitive health promotion, the UK government-sponsored Back to Basics moral crusade in Britain in the early 1990s is salutary. British tabloid newspapers were effectively licensed to demonstrate time and again the