Book reviews

Book reviews in this article: W. R. Rosengren, Sociology of Medicine: Diversity, Conflict and Change. E. G. Mishler et al., Social Contexts of Health, Illness and Patient Care. E. E. Shelp (ed.). Justice and Health Care . S. F. Spicker, J. M. Healey, Jr., and H. T. Ivngelhardt, Jr. (eds). The Law‐Medicine Relation: A Philosophical Exploration . J. Weinman, An Outline of Psychology as Applied to Medicine. M. Jospe, J. Nieberding and B. D. Cohen, Psychological Factors in Health Care. M. A. Counte and L. P. Christman, Interpersonal Behaviour and Health Care . R. A. Scott The Making of Blind Men: A Study of Adult Socialisation. P. Atkinson, The Clinical Experience: The Construction and Reconstruction of Medical Reality. C. Hanvey, Social Work with Mentally Handicapped People. M. Davies, The Essential Social Worker: A Guide to Positive Practice. J. Huntingdon, Social Work and General Medical Practice: Collaboration or Conflict? C. Saunders, D. H. Summers and N. Teller (eds). Hospice: The Living Idea. P. E. Pegg and E. Metze (eds). Death and Dying: A Quality of Life. B. A. Brody and H. T. Engelhardt, Jr. (eds). Mental Illness: Law and Public Policy. J. K. Wing, P. Bebbington and L. N. Robins (eds). What is a Case? The Problem of Definition in Psychiatric Community Surveys. J. K. Wing and B. Morris (eds). Handbook of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practice. C. A. Butterworth and D. Skidmore, Caring For the Mentally III in the Community. W. C. Cockerham, Sociology of Mental Disorder. S. Salzinger, J. Antrobus, and J. Glick (eds). The Ecosystem of the 'Sick’Child: Implications for Classification and Intervention for Disturbed and Mentally Retarded Children. R. Macklin and W. Gaylin (eds). Mental Retardation and Sterilization: A Problem of Competency and Paternalism. S. Boston, Will, My Son, The Life and Death of a Mongol Child. R. Smith, Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials. B. Rowland (ed.). Medieval Woman's Guide to Health: The First English Gynecological Handbook. D. Coburn, C. D'Arcy, P. New and G. Torrance (eds). Health and Canadian Society. J. Chamie, Religion and Fertility: Arab Christian‐Muslim Differentials . M. Cipolla, Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth‐Century Italy. N. W. Jerome, R. F. Kandel and G. H. Pelto, eds., Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to Diet and Culture. L. Wiener, The Politics of Alcoholism: Building an Arena Around a Social Problem .