Human Sexuality in Medical Education and Practice.

To this jaded and disillusioned reviewer of multiauthored symposia, this book comes as a refreshing breeze. Although it is excessively long and easily could have been trimmed by dropping a fifth of its chapters (which are repetitive or too elementary), it nonetheless fills a void and should command serious attention by a large segment of the medical profession. The editor (who is director, Behavioral Sciences Center, the Bowman Gray School of Medicine) has compiled a series of interesting papers, for the most part informative and solidly written. Vincent notes in his introduction that they "were prepared either for predoctoral and postdoctoral Fellows and conducted at the Behavioral Sciences Center of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in 1966 and 1967." He suggests that the "book represents a cafeteria-style response to some of the wide-ranging needs and varied levels of information of practising physicians, health personnel, and medical school faculty members