FAMILY PLANNING, A GUIDE FOR STATE AND LOCAL AGENCIES

it had begun, and the physicians went back to work with the plan essentially intact. The first six chapters describe the background and the events before, during, and after the strike; the last five chapters take up more general questions, such as the effects of the Saskatchewan plan on medical care in the province and the role of the doctor in society. The last chapter is a good summary of the reasons for the strike. But it falls short in that the authors make no attempt to generalize from this case study. There is no reference to the sociological and political science literature on the problem of law as an instrument of social change. And, although they cite other doctors' strikes in Belgium, France, Chile, Greece, Austria, Lebanon, Mexico, and Italy since 1961, they do not raise the question about the conditions that these strikes may have had in common with the Saskatchewan strike; nor do they contrast these cases with cases in which physicians complied with a major change in the health care system, such as the response of American physicians to Medicare in 1966. JOHN COLOMBOTOS