Joyce Parker

Book Reviews : Nature's Plan for your Health by Thomas Bartram. Published by Blandford Press, Dorset, 1984. Pp. 256. Price £4.95 Binding Paperback. ISBN 0 7137 1471 9

monitoring and evaluation at regular intervals. The report gives two model plans for the prevention of coronary heart disease: at a Regional level and at a District Health Authority level. These plans are ambitious and could be modified to suit local conditions and the resources. The report is well written and should prove useful to all those engaged in preventive and promotive health services. M. R. BAHL

Book Reviews : African Fever by Dennis G. Carlson. Published by Science History Publications USA Watson Publishing International, 1984. Price: Binding: æ15.95 HB. Pp 108. ISBN: 0-88202-196-6

women living in Brussels. In some cases, therefore, the response rate must be regarded as so unacceptably low that the authors’ qualification (&dquo;for many age groups and in some centres, the response rate was low for an epidemiological study: in all comparisons, therefore, the response rates should be kept in mind&dquo;) is not strong enough. Nevertheless, response rates in many centers were good enough to provide interesting, descriptive data on the situation of elderly people in different counries. Such information could provide an excellent stimulus to those discussing the planning of services for the elderly. It is disappointing and most surprising that a British centre does not appear to have been included in the survey. L. J. DONALDSON

Book Reviews : Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry by John Braithwaite. Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, Henleyon-Thames, 1984. Pp 440. Price £25 Hardback:

as responsible for corporate crimes of bribery and corruption, frauds in drug testing and of criminal negligence in the unsafe manufacture of drugs. He makesa clear distinction between the integrity of individual employees in the Industry and group-decision making. The contents include chapters on Bribery, Safe Testing of Drugs from egligence to Fraud, Unsafe Manufacring Practices, Antitrust, The Corporation as Pusher, Drug Companies and the Third World and Fiddling and present evidence, mainly of American origin,

Book Reviews : Postcoital Contraception: Methods, Ser vices and Prospects: A Symposium pre sented by PAS, PP. 87. Published by Pregnancy Advisory Service, 1983. Price £2.00

Science is objectivity and reason, whereas religion is subjectivity and intuition. Abortion is a controversial issue where these two schools of thought find it hard to compromise. In every country, legislation hammers out such a compromise in the form of the law. In Britain, the Abortion Act, 1967, is in force. In the Commonwealth, new and old, the criteria for legal abortion varies tremendously, and health workers involved in abortion issues ought to be aware of these variations. This book is unique in that it deals with these variations, based on an authoritative survey of abortion laws in Commonwealth countries. In the Com-