Books Briefly
Books Briefly BLACKS AND AMERICAN MEDICAL CARE, by Max Seham, M.D. Foreword by John L.S. Holloman, Jr., M.D. (University of Minnesota Press. 125 pp. $7.95). A pediatrician with many years of...
...Here a Swedish editor and ecologist sums up the interrelatedness of man ("the primate who came down from the tree") to the total environment...
...He argues that "solutions to the medical crisis will be reached only by a total commitment of doctors, consumers, and legislators to provide adequate and reasonably priced—if necessary, free—medical care for all the citizens of our country...
...His blunt account is all the more convincing because it consists of facts rather than shrill rhetoric...
...174 pp...
...He examines population in terms of the earth's supportive capacity...
...to reinstate nature's innate order, and to pursue a continual cycle of production, use, and return...
...to stop the pursuit of excessive growth and instead subordinate growth to balance...
...A WANDERER'S MUSINGS BEFORE THE FALL, by Rolf Ed-berg (University of Alabama Press...
...12.50...
...8.95 cloth...
...Prose-poet Ed-berg pleads for an integration of "astronomy and anthropology, ecology and ethology...
...genetics and depth psychology" and reminds us that "we are at best only stewards" of this planet...
...3.95 paper...
...a mortality rate two to three times greater than that for whites in similar socioeconomic levels...
...While the book is well written, one wishes that it were deeper in its analysis...
...6.75...
...A pediatrician with many years of experience in the ghetto areas of Minneapolis and St...
...CROMWELL THE LORD PROTECTOR, by Antonia Fraser (Alfred A. Knopf...
...Other contributors whose views are worth attention, if not necessarily accept ance, include Louis Fisher, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., George E. Reedy, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...A humanistic approach to a chilling state of affairs...
...Max Seham presents firsthand observations of the handicaps blacks confront in areas related to health: lack of health education...
...While he believes there has been some improvement over the years, today in America "there are miHions of citizens, children as well as adults, who do not have access to good medical care simply^ because they are poor> or because they are black, or—more commonly—because they are both...
...Horowitz is no expert on the Middle East or on the Jews, and some of his comments reflect a myopic sympathy for Israel without analyzing the complexities of the situation in the Middle East...
...But the book offers no unifying focus...
...In this timely collection of essays sociologist Horowitz discusses such relevant topics as the nature of Israeli society and how Jews outside Israel relate to the Jewish state...
...7.50...
...AT THE FOOT OF THE TREE...
...ISRAELI ECSTASIES/ J EWISH AGONIES, by Irving Louis Horowitz (Oxford University Press...
...320 pp...
...In this biography, impressive for its scholarship, Antonia Fraser does much to verify her judgment, "It is at least possible to claim that Cromwell was the greatest Englishman...
...Fraser's study, which is a far more significant work than her Mary, Queen of Scots, makes it clear why, even to this day, Cromwell is misunderstood and maligned by some Britons...
...He argues that since man cannot "master" nature, "the test that remains is to try to master ourselves...
...The urgent question of Presidential power is examined from every significant perspective, ranging from the late Adolf A. Berle's mind-boggling judgment that "Presidential power in foreign affairs is not out of control" to Tugwell's own rather sweeping proposals for "bringing Presidents to heel...
...Books Briefly BLACKS AND AMERICAN MEDICAL CARE, by Max Seham, M.D...
...His "global crisis program" calls for people to use resources with care because of ecological consequences...
...THE PRESIDENCY REAPPRAISED, edited by Rexford G. Tugwell and Thomas E. Cronin (Praeger...
...774 pp...
...Paul, Dr...
...The Presidency is now deep in controversy," Rexford G. Tugwell and Thomas E. Cronin assert, without much fear of contradiction, in the introduction to this pertinent collection of essays...
...It seems incredible that Cromwell's life and the English Civil War —which not only changed the course of English history but contributed to the origins of the American colonies' defiance of a British king more than a century later— are subjects given only minimal attention in general history courses in the United States...
...A particularly interesting essay deals with the Jewish community in Argentina (the third largest Jewish community in the world outside Israel...
...244 pp...
...This man who could order the slaughter of Irish rebels but show extraordinary tolerance—for his time—of Quakers and Jews, who could rule like a dictator but permit personal attacks by pamphleteers, was a complex personality whose character and life Fraser explores with great skill...
...discrimination as hospital patients and as medical students and practitioners...
Vol. 38 • April 1974 • No. 4
