Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Medical Malpractice: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy . By Patricia M. Danzon
Medical Malpractice: A Preventive Approach . By William O. Robertson, M.D.
Defendant: A Psychiatrist on Trial for Medical Malpractice — An Episode in America's Hidden Health Care Crisis . By Sara C. Charles and Eugene Kennedy
The High Cost of Healing: Physicians and the Health Care System . By J.H.U. Brown, Ph.D.
Public Health in a Retrenchment Era . By Helen J. Muller and Curtis Ventriss     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
Law and Ethics in the Medical Office (Including Bioethical Issues). By Marcia A. Lewis and Carol D. Warden (F. A. Davis Company, Philadelphia, Pa.) (1983) 227 pp., $12.95.
Handbook of Health, Health Care, and the Health Professions. Edited by David Mechanic (Free Press, New York, N.Y.) (1983) 806 pp., $4995.
The Healing Heart: Antidotes to Panic and Helplessness. By Norman Cousins. W.W. Norton and Company, New York, N.Y.) (1983) 302 pp., $13.95.
Testifying in Court: A Guide for Physicians. By Jack E. Horsley, with John Carlova (Medical Economics Books, Oradell, N.J.) (1983) 142 pp., $22.95.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Prenatal and Perinatal Factors Associated with Brain Disorders . Edited by John M. Freeman, M.D.
The Health Care Supervisor's Legal Guide . By Karen Hawley Henry
Human Procreation: Ethical Aspects of the New Techniques: Report of a Working Party, Council for Science and Society     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Sociology of Law . Edited by Pat Carlen . Tort in Transition . By P. D. Mc Kenzie , G. W. R. Palmer and R. S. Clark . Nathan and Marshall : Cases and Commentary on the Law of Trusts . Sixth Edition. By D. J. Hayton . Cases and Materials on English Land Law . By Michael Harwood . Pinson on Revenue Law . 10th edition. Cases and Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law . Second Edition. By Geoffrey Wilson . Immigration Law . By J. M. Evans Mental Health (Social Work & Law Series). By Brenda Hoggett . Legal Issues in Addict Diversion . By Harvey Perlman and Peter Jaszi . Trading Under EEC and U.S. Antitrust Laws . By Alfred Crotti . German Company Law . By H. Wurdinger . (European Commercial Law Library Number 3, General Editor, Robert R. Pennington.)     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
Health and Human Values: A Guide to Making Your Own Decisions. By Frank Harron, John Burnside, and Tom Beauchamp (Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.) (1983) 194 pp., $24.95 (cloth), $6.95 (paper).
Medical Risk Management: Preventive Legal Strategies for Health Care Providers. By Edward P. Richards, III, J.D., and Katherine C. Rathbun, M.D. (Aspen Systems Corp., Rockville, Md.) (1983) 311 pp., $29.95
Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration. By George D. Pozgar (Aspen Systems Corp., Rockville, Md.) (2d ed. 1983) 265 pp., $25.00.
Notice to Members of the Ameri. can Society of Law & Medicine     

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Civility and Disobedience. By Burton Zweibach. Conspiracy and Civil Liberties: a Cobden Trust Memorandum. Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading. Eighteenth ed. By Sir A. A. Mocatta, one of Her Majesty's Judges, Michael J. Mustill Q.C., and Stewart C. Boyd. Law of Banking. Sixth edition. By Lord Chorley Q.C., LL.D., M.A. assisted by J. Milnes Holden, PH.d., LL.D., A.I.B. The Fair Trading Act 1973. By J. P. Cunningham. Consumer Credit Act 1974. By R. M. Goode. Rights in Security. By L. A. Sheridan. Marknadsdomstolens Avgöranden 1971–73. The Legal Context of Social Work. By J. D. McClean. Social Security Law. By Harry Calvert. Industrial Tribunals. By K. Whitesides and G. Hawker. Legal Aid and World Poverty: A Survey of Asia, Africa and Latin America. By the Committee on Legal Services to the Poor in the Developing Countries. A Guide to the Law Affecting Mental Patients. By H. D. Venables. The Law of Husband and Wife in Scotland. By Eric M. Clive and John G. Wilson. References to the European Court: Practice and Procedure. By Francis Jacobs and Andrew Durand. Traite de Droit Compare, Tome II: La Methode Comparative. By Leontin-Jean Constantinesco. Verses from Lincoln's Inn. The House of Lords and the Labour Government 1964–1970. By Janet P. Morgan.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
Medical Law for the Attending Physician: A Case-Oriented Analysis . By Salvatore F. Fiscina, M.D., J.D.
Rights and Advocacy for Retarded People . By Stanley S. Herr
The Rights of the Critically Ill . By John A. Robertson, J.D.     

Ethics and the Physician-Patient Relationship

Book Reviews in This Article:
Getting Rid of Patients: Contradictions in the Socialization of Physicians . By Terry Mizrahi
Physicians and Social Change . By John Colombotos and Corinne Kirchner
Changing Values in Medicine . Edited by Eric J. Cassell and Mark Siegler
Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine: Beyond Dilemmas and Decorum . By Harmon L. Smith and Larry R. Churchill
Physician—Patient Decision-Making: A Study in Medical Ethics . By Douglas N. Walton
With Dignity: The Search for Medicare and Medicaid . By Sheri I. David
The Dismissal of Students with Mental Disorders. Legal Issues, Policy Considerations, and Alternative Responses .
Courtroom Toxicology . By Marshall Houts, Randall C. Baselt, and Robert H. Cravey     

Book Reviews

Book Reviews in This Article:
America's Health Care Revolution. Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Pays? By Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
American Medicine: The Power Shift . By Eli Ginzberg
Health Services in the United States, 2d ed. By Florence A. Wilson and Duncan Neuhauser
The U.S. Health Care System. A Look to the 19905 . Edited by Eli Ginzberg.
Handbook of Health Care Risk Management . By Glenn T. Troyer and Steven L. Salman
Health Care Risk Management: Organization and Claims Administration . By Gary P. Kraus
Medicolegal Aspects of Critical Care . Edited by Katherine Benesch, Norman S. Abramson, Ake Grenvik, and Alan Meisel
Ethics and Critical Care Medicine . Edited by John C. MosLop and Loretta Kopelnian
The mentally disabled and the Law , 3d ed. By Samuel Jan Brakel, John Parry, and Barbaa A.     

THE BOOKSHELF

Book Review in this article
CHILD CUSTODY LITIGATION: A Guide for Parents and Mental Health Professionals , by Richard A. Gardner, M.D., Creative Therapeutics, New Jersey, 1986, $18.00.
LAW AND ETHICS IN COUNSELING , By Dean L. Hummel, Lou C. Talbutt, and M. David Alexander Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York (1984) $32.95 cloth.
FAMILIES ARE FOREVER , by Nathan Schaefer, M.D. R & E Publishers, P.O. Box 2008, Saratoga, CA 95070.1985. 158 pages, softcover, $9.95.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Christoph Bail, Robert Falkner and Helen Marquard (eds), The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology with Environment and Development?
Lyuba Zarsky (ed.) , Human Rights and the Environment, Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World
Eric Neumayer , Greening Trade and Investment: Environmental Protection without Protectionism
Rosalind Reeve , Policing International Trade in Endangered Species: The CITES Treaty and Compliance
Nicolas de Sadeleer , Environmental Principles: From Political Slogans to Legal Rules
Peter Ehlers, Elisabeth Mann-Borgese, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Cristina Hoß (eds), Marine Issues: From a Scientific, Political and Legal Perspective
Geir Honneland and Anne-Kristin Jorgensen , Implementing International Environmental Agreements in Russia     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
T ender M ercies , by Rosellen Brown
P sychiatrists and the L egal P rocess : D iagnosis and D ebate , edited with commentary by Richard J. Bonnie, LL.B.
F orgive and R emember : M anaging M edical F ailure . By Charles L. Bosk
T he S wine F lu A ffair : D ecision -M aking on A S lippery D isease . By Richard E. Neustadt and Harvey V. Fineberg     

Reviews

Legal History Studies 1972. Edited by Dafydd Jenkins. A History of Contract at Common Law. By S. J. Stouar. [Australian National University Press. An Essay on a Contemporary Jurisprudence. By Peter Brett. Winfield and Jolowicz on Tort. Tenth edition. By W. V. H. Rogers. b Street on Torts. Sixth edition. By Harry Street, ll.m., ph.d., ll.d. Company Law in Europe. Edited by S. N. Frommel, ph.d. and J. M. Thompson, m.a., ll.b. Opening the Door. By Kathleen Jones with John Brown , W. J. Cunningham , Julian Roberts and Peter Williams. Mental Health Services. Fourth edition. By A. H. Edwards. Justice Without Trial : Law Enforcement in Democratic Society. The English Sentencing System. Second edition. By Sir Rupert Cross, d.c.l., f.b.a. Punishment and Deterrence. By Johannes Andenaes. Instruments of Economic Integration in Latin America and in the Caribbean. Prepared by the Inter-American Institute of International Legal Studies. A History of the Common Law of Contract. Clerk and Lindsell on Torts. Fourteenth edition. General editors Sir Arthur Armitage and R. W. M. Dias.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Principles of Sentencing . By D. A. Thomas Principles of Scottish Private Law . By David M. Walker Industrial Law in Scotland . By Isaac P. Miller Jurisprudence . By R. W. M. Dias . Third Edition Introduction to Legal Theory . By John D. Finch . Equity . By George W. Keeton and L. A. Sheridan . The Tide of Divorce . By William Latey, q.c Bankruptcy Law and Practice . By G. H. L. Fridman , I. Hicks and E. C. Johnson International Law , being the collected papers of Hersch Lauterpacht, q.c. ll.d ., f.b.a . Systematically arranged and edited by E. Lauterpacht, q.c     

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Book reviewed in this article: Lawyers and the Public Interest . A study in Restrictive Practices . By Michael Zander In Search of Justice . Society and the Legal System . By Brian Abel -Smith and Robert Stevens Law Reform: the New Pattern , being the Lindsay Memorial Lectures for 1967. By the Hon . Mr . Justice Scarman Frontiers of Civil Liberties . By Norman Dorsen Freedom, the Individual and the Law . By Harry Street Human Rights in National and International Law . Edited by A. H. Robertson Comparative Constitutional Process : Cases and Materials. By Thomas M. Franck Palmer 's Company Law . Twenty-first Edition by Clive M. Schmitthoff, ll.d . Company Law . By Robert R. Pennington The Investor and the Law . By Robert R. Pennington . Harris 's Criminal Law . Twenty-first Edition. By Anthony Hooper . An Outline of the Law of Evidence . By Rupert Cross and Nancy Wilkins . African Women : Their Legal Status in South Africa . By H. J. Simons Family Law in Asia and Africa . Edited by J. N. D. Anderson Manual of German Law . Volume I: General Introduction, Civil Law. Second completély revised edition. By E. J. Cohn , assisted by W. Zdzieblo The Civil Practice of the Superior Courts in South Africa . Second Edition. Edited by Van Winsen and Thomas (in collaboration with A. C. Cilliers ) American Legal Realism . By Wilfrid E. Rumble , Jr Military Alliances and Neutrality in War and Peace . By Subrata Roy Chowdhury     

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Road Accidents . By D. W. Elliott and Harry Street . Law and Society , a series edited by Professors O. Kahn-Freund and K. W. Wedderburn. Compensation for Road Accidents —A Study on the Question of Absolute Liability and Social Insurance. By Alexander Szakats . A Modern View of the Criminal Law . By S. W. Stewart, ll. b . Labor and the Legal Process . By Harry H. Wellington . An Introduction to Administrative Law in New Zealand . By D. E. Patterson . Bowstead on Agency . Thirteenth edition. By F. M. B. Reynolds and B. J. Davenport . An Introduction to Legal Systems . Edited by J. Duncan M. Derrett , Professor of Law in the University of London. Law and Practice Relating to Banking . Vols. 1 and 2. By F. E. Perry . Monopolies and Restrictive Practices . By Valentine Korah . Sale of Goods and Hire Purchase . By R. Lowe . Uniform Laws on International Sales Act 1967: A Commentary . By R. H. Graveson , E. J. Cohn , and Diana Graveson . The Law of Nations . By J. E. S. Fawcett . New Nations and the Law of Nations . By S. Prakash Sinha . How Nations Behave . Law and Foreign Policy . By Louis Henkin . United Nations Peacekeeping 1946–1967. Volume I: The Middle East . By Rosalyn Higgins . Jerusalem and the Holy Places . By Elihu Lauterpacht . Cases on Private International Law . By J. H. C. Morris . Facts , Failures and Frauds . By D. Morier Evans . [London: Groombridge and Sons. 1859; reprinted by Augustus M. Kelley (New York) and published in the United Kingdom by David and Charles (Newton Abbot). The Ombudsman . Edited by Donald C. Rowatt . Contract and Conveyance . By J. T. Farrand, ll. d ., Solicitor (Hons.), Professor of Law at the University of Manchester. Constitutions of Asian Countries . Prepared by the Secretariat of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, New Delhi. The Roman Law Reader . Edited by F. H. Lawson . Oceana Docket Series.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Jacques Lenoble and André Berten, Dire la norme; droit, politique et énonciation, Brussels: E. Story-Scientia. Sheila A.M. McLean (ed), Legal Issues in Human Reproduction, Aldershot: Gower. David Cusine, New Reproductive Techniques: A Legal Perspective, Aldershot: Gower. Harold Perkin, The Rise of Professional Society: England since 1880, London: Routledge.     

Reviews

Jurisprudence. By B. A. Wortley, o.b.e., ll.m. (Leeds), ll.d. (Manchester), Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law in the University of Manchester. The American Jury. By Harry Kalven Jr. and Hans Zeisel. Law Relating to Nuclear Energy. By Harry Street and F. R. Frame. Sources of Family Law. By J. C. Hall, m.a., ll.b. Cambridge Legal Case Book Series. Sovereignty Within the Law. By Arthur Larson, C. Wilfred Jenks and Others. The New Nations in International Law and Diplomacy. Edited by William V. O'Brien. Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee. Report of the Sixth Session, Cairo, 1964; Seventh Session, Baghdad, 1965. International Law in Australia. Edited by D. P. O'Connell. Paget's Law of Banking. Seventh edition. By Maurice Megrah assisted by F. R. Ryder. Leading Cases in the Law of Banking. Second edition. By Lord Chorley and P. E. Smart. Cases on the Criminal Law, Procedure and Evidence of Nigeria (excluding the North). Law in Africa, No. 19. By Cyprian O. Okonkwo and Ian McLean. Soviet Criminal Law and Procedure: the R.S.F.S.R. Codes. Translated by H. J. Berman and J. W. Spindler, with an Introduction by Harold J. Berman. Nigerian Law of Landlord and Tenant. By M. O. Onwuamaegbu, b.a., ll.m., ph.d. (London), of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law; Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Sir John Latham and Other Papers. By Zelman Cowen. Of Law and Men. By Felix Frankfurter. Introduction to English Law. By Philip S. James. Sixth edition. Elements of English Law. By William Geldart. Seventh ed. by D. C. M. Yardley. The Book of English Law (as at the year 1966). By Edward Jenks. 6th revised edition by P. B. Fairest. Cowen on the Law of Negotiable Instruments in South Africa. Fourth edition. By Denis V. Cowen and Leonard Gering. Principles of Registered Land Conveyancing. By J. A. Holland, ll.b. and J. R. Lewis, ll.b.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Legal Obligations . By J. C. Smith . The Law in Crisis : Bridges of Understanding . By C. G. Weeramantry . Lawyers in Their Social Setting . Edited by D. N. Mac Cormick . The Contract of Employment . By M. R. Freedland . Labour Law and Offshore Oil . By Jonathan Kitchen . Studies on Divorce . Law Reform Commission of Canada. Legal Aid —The First 25 Years . By Seton Pollock . Legal Aid and its Management . By P. H. Gross . Juta & Co. 335 pp. R.25.00.]     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Judicial Administration : The American Experience . By Delmar Karlen The Law and Practice of Banking . Volume 1: Banker and Customer . By J. Milnes Holden, ph.d . Cheques in Law and Practice . By M. S. Parthasarathy The Law of Succession . By A. R. Mellows Quantum of Punishment in Criminal , Law in India . By Kirpal Singh Chhabra Phipson on Evidence . Eleventh edition. By John H. Buzzard , Roy D. Amlot and Stephen Mitchell . The South African Law of Evidence . Second edition. By L. H. Hoffman Ombudsman Papers : American Experience and Proposals . By Stanley V. Anderson . Le Contrôle Judicaire de L'Administration au Québec . By René Dussault . L'Enquête Publique en Angleterre . By Jean -Luc Boussard Comparative Administrative Law . By the Honourable Mr . Justice Durga Das Basu The Civil Law Tradition . By John Henry Merryman . The Antitrust Laws of the U.S.A.: A Study of Competition Enforced by Law . Second edition. By A. D. Neale Legal Effects of United Nations Resolutions . By Jorge Castañeda . Studies in International Adjudication . By R. P. Anand