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Comparative Psychiatry. By H. B. M. Murphy. (Pp. 328; illustrated; $65.80.) Springer-Verlag: Berlin. 1982

of the development of a psychiatric service either to meet a demand, or to defend itself against one. It is a timely moment in the United States for the publication of this book, as there is a ground swell of opinion back towards medically based and away from socially based psychiatry. This book is both an attempt to explain why this reaction should be occurring and also to try and limit its extent. Physicians in Britain are inclined to overlook these factors when they operate here, possibly because doctors in the National Health Service rarely feel themselves involved in the explicit allocation of resources. This book may not therefore seem, at first sight, to be as relevant to the British scene as to the American. However, it can still be read with advantage by any British psychiatrist who is interested in how well, or ill, the service that he provides meets the needs of the population served.