Primary Mother Care and Population

doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7415.626

BMJ 2003;327:626 (13 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7415.626

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Primary Mother Care and Population

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A remarkable thing about Maurice King is his ingenuity in gettinghis controversial ideas into print. Motivated by public healthand humanitarian concerns, he has long pursued a well researched,passionate, somewhat eccentric, and tireless campaign to avertdemographic and environmental disaster in an increasingly overpeopled, overconsuming world. Now entering the fourth quarter of hisfirst century, after several decades of engagement and leadershipin primary health care in developing countries, King has reinventedhimself as "knowledge engineer," a sort of literary puppeteer.The editors of this book, all colleagues from his years of work and travel, have contributed ideas and critiques. King, however,has done much of the writing and design.

Eds Glen Mola, Jim Thornton, Michael Breen, Colin Bullough, John Guillebaud, Frank Addo

Published privately by Maurice King, pp 416 ISBN pp 416 ISBN 0 9544212 0 5. For information about price and ordering, email sales@spiegl.co.uk or telephone . . . [Full text of this article]

Tony McMichael, director

National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Tony.McMichael@anu.edu.au