Book Reviews

Book 1Book Title: Health Care as Human RightBook Author: Ed. by Anton van NiekerkPp. 115. Stellenbosch: Unit for Bioethics, University of Stellenbosch. 1993. ISBN 0-79720429- 6.Book 2Book Title: Psychosis and its ManagementBook Author: A.E. GangatPp. xvii + 169. Durban: Valentine Bedford. 1992. ISBN 0-620-16940-0.Book 3Book Title: Health Care in South Africa: Structure and DynamicsBook Authors: H.C.J. van Rensburg, A. Fourie & E. PretoriusPp. xix + 438. lllustrated. Pretoria: Academica. 1992. ISBN 0-86874-471-9Book 4Book Title: Guidelines for Cholera ControlBook Author: WHOPp. vi + 61. (in English; French and Spanish in preparation). $16,20. Geneva: WHO. 1993. Order No. 1150398. ISBN 92-4-15444-9X

Academic boycott - political strategy or moral imperative? Selective support as a justifiable alternative

Academic boycott has been justified as an appropriate political strategy in the struggle against the oppression of apartheid. Moral outrage against racist policies has led to the claim that academic boycott is a morally imperative component of a broader sanctions policy. This claim has neither been substantiated by a reasoned ethical argument nor weighted against an ethically justifiable approach that is consistent with universal humanitarian aspirations and which allows rejection of apartheid to be coupled to constructive endeavours

Plagues and peoples revisited

Basic and strategic research for infectious disease control at the interface of the life, health and social science

Book Reviews

Book Review 1Book Title: The Threatened Medical Identity of Psychiatry: Winds of ChangeBook Author: Theodore PearlmanPp. xxi + 270. Illinois: Charles C Thomas. 1992.Book Review 2Book Title: Operative Laparoscopy. The Masters' TechniquesBook Author: Richard M. Sodenstrom (Ed.)Pp. xv + 245. Illustrated. New York: Raven Press. 1992.Book Review 3Book Title: Bailliere's Clinical Neurology: International Practice and Research: Ocular Motor Disorders of the Brain StemBook Authors: U Büttner & T Brandt (Eds.)Pp. ix + 263-475. Illustrated. London: Bailliere Tindall. 1992.Book Review 4Book Title: Rights and Responsibilities of DoctorsPp. xxviii + 226. Overseas £15, London: BMJ 1992Book Review 5Book Title: MRI of the KneeBook Authors:  J.H. Mink, M.A. Reicher, J.V. Crues III & A. L. Deutsch (Eds.)2nd Ed. Pp. xiii + 474. Illustrated. New York: Raven Press. 1993Book Review 6Book Title: April Fool's Day: A Modern TragedyBook Author: B CourtenayPp. xii + 449. Port Melbourne, Australia: William Heinemann. 1993.Book Review 7Book Title: Report on Surrogate MotherhoodPp. xiv + 183. Pretoria: South African Law Commission. 1992.Book Review 8Book Title: Ward's Anaesthetic EquipmentBook Authors: Andrew Davey, John T. B. Moyle & Crispian S. Ward (Eds.)3rd Ed. pp. xiv + 391. Illustrated. London: W. B. Saunders. 1992.Book Review 9Book Title: Inside autism: Nobody NowhereBook Author: Donna WilliamsPp. xvii + 199. Illustrated. London: Doubleday. 1992.Book Review 10Book Title: Medical Negligence in South AfricaBook Authors: N.J. B. Claasens & T. VerschoorPp. 128. Pretoria: Digma Publications. 1992.Book Review 11Book Title: Biopsy Diagnosis of the Digestive Tract. (Biopsy Interpretation Series)Book Authors: Heidrun Rotterdam, Daniel G. Sheahan & Sheldon C. Sommers2nd Ed. Pp. 869. Illustrated. New York: Raven Press. 1992.Book Review 12Book Title: Baby and Child Care HandbookBook Author: Marina PetropulosPp. 334. Illustrated. Camps Bay: Marina Petropulos. 1992