Book Reviews

PUBLIC PLANNING AND CONTROL OF URBAN AND LAND DEVELOPMENT. CASES AND MATERIALS. By Donald G. Hagman. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1973. Pp. 1208. $18.50. UNION POWER AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST. By Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1973. Pp. 204.$10.00. THE BENCHWARMERS: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE POWERFUL FEDERAL JUDGES. By Joseph C. Goulden. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1974. Pp. 375. $12.50

Book Reviews

FEDERAL JUDGES: THE APPOINTING PROCESS. By Harold W. Chase. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1972. Pp. xiii, 240. CORPORATE LIB: WOMEN\u27S CHALLENGE TO MANAGEMENT. Edited by Eli Ginzberg and Alice M. Yohalem. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. Pp. x, 153. URBAN JUSTICE: LAW AND\u27 ORDER IN AMERICAN CITIES. By Herbert Jacob. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973. Pp. viii, 145. THE CONSCIENCE OF A LAWYER. By David Mellinkoff. St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1973. Pp. x, 304

Working in the Public Interest Law Conference

The two-day conference included a variety of panel discussions and roundtables on such topics as: civil liberties; race and the criminal justice system; decriminalizing mental illness; funding public defender systems; the media\u27s role in the law; immigration; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth in state sponsored institutions; environmental justice; and women\u27s reproductive rights

Thigh-length compression stockings and DVT after stroke

Controversy exists as to whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy improves survival in patients with invasive bladder cancer, despite randomised controlled trials of more than 3000 patients. We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the effect of such treatment on survival in patients with this disease