chapter Introduction: chronic disease, its natural history and ecology -- chapter 1 Chronic disease: what’s so special about it? -- chapter 2 The story of chronic disease (the disease complex) -- chapter 3 The journey through chronic disease (the patient complex) -- chapter 4 Care of the chronic sick: the community complex -- chapter 5 The clinical complex: the general practitioner and chronic care -- chapter 6 A chronic care revolution: service redesign and the policy complex -- chapter 7 The learning and teaching complex through the chronic disease paradigm -- chapter 8 Meeting the challenges of chronic care.