A text for undergraduates and general readers covering the major factors affecting the health of people in the UK during the 1990s. Its 14 chapters, written by health-care practitioners and researchers in a variety of disciplines, traverse the course of human life from conception to death, "focusing on the overlapping generations of individuals from the newborn to the very oldest who inhabited the UK as the new millennium was about to begin." Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)