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1. Health promotion practice: power and empowerment By Glenn Laverack. Published by Sage Publications, London 2004. Paperback 157 pp. Price £18.99 ISBN 0-7619-4180-0
In 1847 a typhoid epidemic was ravaging Silesia in Russia. The government hired a littleknown pathologist Rudolf Virchow to look into it. They expected a report on how to improve the supply of clean drinking water; instead they got a young man inciting the people of Silesia to discover and then achieve their own needs in terms of education, freedom and welfare (and clean water). According to...