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Health Promotion International, Vol. 14, No. 2, 189-191, June 1999
© Oxford University Press 1999

Resource Reviews

Rethinking Health Promotion: A Global Approach

T. MacDonald, Routledge, London, 1998, ISBN 0 415 16475 3 (pbk)

Mark Dooris

Department of Health Studies, Faculty of Health, University of Central Lancashire, UK In the preface to Rethinking Health Promotion: A Global Approach, Théodore MacDonald whets the reader's appetite by touching on a number of important issues facing health promotion at the close of the millennium. Is health promotion in danger of becoming a ‘theory of everything’? How can it be defined coherently? Should it avoid being seen as a discipline in itself? And—as highlighted in the book's title—how can health promotion develop a global imperative?

Designed for use in postgraduate and undergraduate education and professional training, the book is broadly structured into three sections. The first section, Chapters 1–4, considers the history and philosophy of health promotion; the second section, Chapters 5–6, focuses on the British experience; and the third section, Chapters 7–14 comprises a number of relatively self-contained lecture papers dealing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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