PEDIATRICS Vol. 52 No. 5 November 1973, pp. 764
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Medicine In A Changing Society, by Lawrence Corey, M.D., Steven E. Saltman, M.D., and Michael F. Epstein, M.D. Saint Louis: The C. V. Mosby Company, 1972, 228 pp., $6.50

Donald C. Smith M.D.1

1 Lansing, Michigan

Nineteen hundred and sixty-eight was a vintage year for student activists. Conflicts between students and faculty were the rule rather than the exception. When they occurred in medical schools they frequently focused on the teaching of the social and preventive aspects of medicine. Such was the case at the University of Michigan, where "frustration with the public health course" led students into an open confrontation with the School of Public Health. In the discussions which followed, a number of changes were agreed upon.