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To Give Their Gifts: Health, Community, and Democracy
Richard A. Couto
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Description for To Give Their Gifts: Health, Community, and Democracy
Democracy needs the extraordinary efforts of ordinary people. The experiences of the 12 creative community health leaders, which this book presents, provide examples of innovative democratic leadership. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPF; JPHL; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
Democracy needs the extraordinary efforts of ordinary people. The experiences of the twelve creative community health leaders, which this book presents, provide excellent examples of innovative democratic leadership. Selected from recipients of awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Program, the leaders range from Lorelei DeCora, who works to control the diabetes epidemic among Native Americans, to Judy Panko Reis, an advocate for accessible health care for women with disabilities, to Ron Brown, who helps recovering addicts at Odyssey House in Flint, Michigan. These activists work with people - Native Americans, migrant workers, Central American refugees, disabled persons, ... Read more
Democracy needs the extraordinary efforts of ordinary people. The experiences of the twelve creative community health leaders, which this book presents, provide excellent examples of innovative democratic leadership. Selected from recipients of awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Program, the leaders range from Lorelei DeCora, who works to control the diabetes epidemic among Native Americans, to Judy Panko Reis, an advocate for accessible health care for women with disabilities, to Ron Brown, who helps recovering addicts at Odyssey House in Flint, Michigan. These activists work with people - Native Americans, migrant workers, Central American refugees, disabled persons, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826514103
SKU
V9780826514103
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About Richard A. Couto
Richard A. Couto is a professor in the Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change at Antioch University. His most recent book, Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital and the Democratic Prospect, won the 2000 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize of Independent Sector.
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