This up-date of the Association of Police Surgeons' "The New Police Surgeon" follows a similar style, covering similar territory, and is at least equally well-indexed and written. Twenty-nine contributors have encompassed in 18 chapters the matters which doctors and others may expect to meet when confronted with the law. The area of clinical forensic medicine is growing in importance as the vanishing all-purpose forensic pathologist of the past gives way to police surgeons and forensic physicians who tackle the clinical aspects of such work. It is only necessary to mention child abuse, prisoners in police custody and hepatitis B, Aids and DNA profiling to realize that more knowledge is now required of those doctors whose work brings them into close contact with the law. The editor of this up-dated volume is modest about its contents and does not claim complete assurance in the legal fields, but his contributors give sound advice on a practical level in every chapter of the book. As might be imagined, the chapters dealing with sexual abuse of children, sexual offences against adults and the medico-legal significance of pregnancy are written with partic~!:ar lucidity.