Forwarded message: From: Self <Single-user mode> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Health Promotion: Philosophy, Prejudice and Practice Cc: [log in to unmask] Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:08:30 Dear Marit I came across your comments recently. I'm rather puzzled by them because they are mostly completely inaccurate. For example, there are 125 references, not 300. The book is quite clearly about health promotion - see chapter 5 (The Political Roots of Health Promotion) for instance, and the first two dialogues where I chart the development of public health/health education/health promotion. Furthermore I have not avoided professional discussions for 'the last ten years' - I know these all too well and several are referenced. Most remarkably you do not seem to have read Part Three at all (the book is in three parts). If you had you could scarcely have said that I don't put forward a positive, practical theory of health promotion. Please take a closer look at this section. It is called 'The Foundations Theory of Health Promotion', it is explained between pages 135 and 189, and it is as far as I know the only philosophically sustained theory of health promotion there is. I appreciate that the book may be hard going at times, but I assure you that it is directed at the central philosophical issues for health promotion, and will repay more careful study. Best wishes David Seedhouse