Book Reviews: The Cradle Will Fall, The Verdict, Cases and Materials on Pharmacy Law, The Lunar Effect: Biological Tides and Human Emotions, Child Psychiatry and the Law, Patients: The Experience of Illness

The primary reason most professionals get involved in the health law field is because the subject matter is intrinsically fascinating. The general practice of law or medicine can easily become routinized and boring; but health law issues are in a constant state of flux, and the controversies involve issues that are vital both to the individuals involved, and to society as a whole. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that in an era that is witnessing the breakdown of the barrier between fiction and non-fiction, more and more novels use health law issues for their major themes. The two works under review both fall into this category.