BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews in this Article:
The Uses of Philosophy , by Mary Warnock
Issues in Reproductive Technology , by Helen Bequaert Holmes (ed)
Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses , by Bonnie Steinbock
The Ethics of Diagnosis , edited by Jose Luis Peset and Diego Gracia.
Gene Mapping: Using Law and Ethics as Guides , edited by George J. Annas and Sherman Elias.
Creation and Abortion: A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy , by F.M. Kamm.
Wonderwoman and Superman: The Ethics of Human Biotechnology , by John Harris
International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects , by Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Am I My Parents’Keeper?, by Norman Daniels Legal Issues in Human Reproduction, Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean Health Care Systems: Moral Conflicts in European and American Public Policy, edited by Hans-Martin Sass and Robert U. Massey Ethics in nursing practice: Basic Principles and their Application, by F.J. Fitzpatrick     

Career Guides for Anthropologists

Getting a Job Outside the Academy . A Special Publication of the American Anthropological Association, No. 14. American Anthropological Association.
Directory of Practicing Anthropologists . A Special Publication of the American Anthropological Association, No. 13. Agnes B. Chatelain and Louis F. Cimino , compilers
Anthropological Careers: Perspectives on Research, Employment and Training: Essays Presented to the Anthropological Society of Washington during Its Centennial Year 1979 . Ruth H. Landman, ed.
Stalking Employment in the Nation's Capital: A Guide for Anthropologists . Iles Minoff , ed.
Directory of Practicing Anthropologists in the Nation's Capital . Robert M. Wulff , ed.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Beginning Lives , by Rosalind Hursthouse.
On Moral Medicine:Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics , edited by Stephen E. Lammers and Allen Verhey.
Quantitative Risk Assessment , edited by James M. Humber and Robert F.
A Theory of Value and Obligation , by Robin Attfield.
Ethical Issues at the Outset of Life , edited by William B. Weil Jr. and Martin Benjamin.
Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying by Norman L. Cantor
Having Your Baby By Donor Insemination:A Complete Resource Guide , by Elizabeth Noble     

Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity

Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity. Laurel Kendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 259 pp.     

Workmen's Compensation Act; some aspects of interest to California physicians

This article was prepared by Mr. William M. Whelan, Director of Special Services, California Medical Association, under the supervision of Dr. Francis J. Cox, Chairman of the Medical Services Commission of the Association, and Mr. Howard Hassard, the Association's Legal Counsel. It is intended as a brief synopsis of the California Workmen's Compensation Law as it applies to the physician in private practice. It is not an exhaustive treatment of the subject. A physician who desires to acquaint himself in detail with California industrial practice should consult the article entitled "The Physician's Role in Workmen's Compensation," California Medicine, 82:352-362, April, 1955. Inquiries regarding industrial medicine should be addressed to Mr. William M. Whelan, California Medical Association, 450 Sutter St., San Francisco 8.     

The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet

The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet. Rebecca Redwood French. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.404 pp.     

The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship.

The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship. Paul W. Kahn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 169 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: M. Auge and C. Herzlich (eds). The Meaning of Illness. Stanley R. Barrett. Anthropology: A Student's Guide to Theory and Method. Steen Bergendorff. Faingu City: A Modern Mekeo Clan in Papua New Guinea. Ben Burt. Living Tradition: A Changing Life in Solomon Islands. As told by Michael Kwa'ioloa to Ben Burt. Ann Game and Andrew Metcalfe. Passionate Sociology. Matthew C. Gutmann. The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. Edvard Hviding. Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place and Politics in Maritime Melanesia. Bernard Juillerat. L'Avènement du Père. Rite, représentation, fantasme dans un culte mélanésian. L. Kendall. Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity. M. Lock. Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America. Daniel Miller. Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach. Alcida Rita Ramos. Sanuma Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis. Stanley J. Tambiah. Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia.     

Books Received

Books received:
Austin Garwood-Gowers, Living Donor Organ Transplantation: Key Legal and Ethical Issues
Stephen R. Leeder, Healthy Medicine     

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT—Some Aspects of Interest to California Physicians

This article was prepared by Mr. William M. Whelan, Director of Special Services, California Medical Association, under the supervision of Dr. Francis J. Cox, Chairman of the Medical Services Commission of the Association, and Mr. Howard Hassard, the Association''s Legal Counsel. It is intended as a brief synopsis of the California Workmen''s Compensation Law as it applies to the physician in private practice. It is not an exhaustive treatment of the subject. A physician who desires to acquaint himself in detail with California industrial practice should consult the article entitled “The Physician''s Role in Workmen''s Compensation,” California Medicine, 82:352-362, April, 1955. Inquiries regarding industrial medicine should be addressed to Mr. William M. Whelan, California Medical Association, 450 Sutter St., San Francisco 8.     

Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity

Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity . Dik Roth, Rutgerd Boelens, and Margareet Zwarteveen, eds. New Brunswick: NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 313 pp.     

The Pleasure of the Crown: Anthropology, Law and First Nations; Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik

The Pleasure of the Crown: Anthropology, Law and First Nations. Dara Culhane. Burnaby, BC. Talon Books, 1998.406 pp.
Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik. Susan G. Drummond. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.189 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviws in this Article
Daniel Callahan: What Kind of Life - The Limits of Medical Progress, New York: Touchstone, 1991
Hans-Martin Sass (Hrsg.), Genomanalyse und Gentherapie. Ethische Herausforderungen in der Humanmedizin. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 1991
AIDS: A Moral Issue - The Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects, edited by Brenda Almond, MacMillan 1990     

The Sámi and Their Land. The Sámi versus the Swedish Crown. A Study of the Legal Struggle for Improved Land Rights: The Taxed Mountains Case

The Sámi and Their Land. The Sámi versus the Swedish Crown. Study of the Legal Straggle for Improved Land Rights: The Taxed Mountains Case. Tom G. Svensson. Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture Series B, 96. Oslo: Novus forlag; Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning, 1997. 213 pp.     

Indigenous Legal Issues

Indigenous Legal Issues. Second edition. Commentary and materials by Heather McRae. Garth Nettheim. and Laura Beacroft. Sydney: Law Book Company, 1997.540 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Abating Treatment With Critically III Patients: Ethical and Legal Limits to the Medical Prolongation of Life, by Robert F. Weir
Birthrights: Law and Ethics at the Beginning of Life, Robert Lee and Derek Morgan (eds.)
Tomorrow's Child: Reproductive Technologies in the 90's by Lynda Birke     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviws in this Article Shaping Genes: Ethics, Law and Science Using Genetic Technology in Medicine and Agriculture, DarrylR.J. Macer. Christchurch, N.Z. Eubios Ethics Institute, 1990 Suicide and Euthanasia: Historical and Contemporary Themes (Philosophy and Medicine 35), Baruch A. Brody (ed.) Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers (1989) Who Lives? Who Dies? Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection by John Kilner. New Haven: Yale U.P., 1990 Beyond BabyM: Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques edited by Dianne M. Bartels, Reinhard Priester, Dorothy E. Vawter and Arthur L. Caplan. Clifton, N.J: Humana Press, 1989 Surrogate Motherhood The Legal and Human Issues by Martha A. Field. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press Medico-Legal Aspects of Parenthood and Reproduction, by J.K. Mason. Aldershot, U.K: Dartmouth Pub. Co., 1990 Philosophical Ethics in Reproductive Medicine: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Philosophical Ethics in Reproductive Medicine, University of Leeds, 18-22 April, 1988. Ed. by David R. Bromham, Maureen E. Dalton and Jennifer Jackson. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990     

Negotiating a Multicultural Canon: Finding the "Indian" in American Indian Law

The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition. Bruce Elliot Johansen. ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. 410 pp.
Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800. Robert A. Williams Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 192 pp.     

Back to the drawing board: Fourth amendment rights and the marine mammal protection act

Gerard J. Tanja, The Legal Determination of International Maritime Boundaries: The Progressive Development of Continental Shelf, EFZ, and EEZ Law (Deventer; Boston: Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, 1990), 360 p. ISBN 90–6544–4785. Dfl. 125.00, US $73.00.