Book reviews

Conventional war

Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959–1975. The Library of America, New York, 1998, Two vols, $35.00 each. Vol. 1, 859 pp., ISBN 1–883011–58–2. Vol. 2, 859 pp., ISBN 1–883011–59–0.

War, Medicine and Modernity. Edited by Roger Cooter, Mark Harrison and Steve Sturdy. Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1999, vi + 258 pp., £14.99 (pbk), ISBN 0–7509–1802–0.

Staying Alive. By David Lloyd Roberts. International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 1999, 126pp., SFr 15.00, ISBN 2–88145–099–7 (available from Publication Division, ICRC, 19 Avenue de la Paix, CH 1202 Genève, Switzerland).

Population

Human Population Competition: A Study of the Pursuit of Power Through Numbers. By Jack Parsons. Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter, Ceredigion, Queenston, Ontario, and Lewiston, NY (2 vols), 828 pp. total, £139.90 / $219.90, (£69.95 / $109.95 per volume), ISBN 0–7734–8372–1 (vol.1), 0–7734–8374–8 (vol.2).

Biography

For the Good of Humanity: Ludwig Rajchman, Medical Statesman. By Marta A. Balinska. Central European University Press, Budapest, 1998, 293 pp., £22.00, ISBN 963–9116–17–3.

Nuclear power

The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II. By Gabrielle Hecht. MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1998, 453 pp., £29.95, ISBN 0–262–08266–7.

I Wish I'd Made you Angry Earlier: Essays on Science and Scientists. By Max Perutz. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998, 345pp., £19.99, ISBN 0–19–858531–0.

Human rights

Human Rights and Health ‐ the Legacy of Apartheid. American Association for the Advancement of Science & Physicians for Human Rights, Boston, 1998, 210 pp., no price given, (available from PHR, 100 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116, USA).