102 BOOK REVIEWSLuisa By J. T. Dove. Gweru, Mambo Press, 1989, 115 pp., Z$ 14, 65.Luisa agli Amici: Raccolta di Lettere della Dott. Luisa Guidotti dellaMissione di All-Souls [L. Orzetti], Modena, privately, 1980,23 pp., available onrequest from San Domenico, Via 3 Febbraio, Modena.The first booklet is a biography of Dr Luisa Guidotti Mistrali who worked untilher death in 1979 on All Souls Mission near Mutoko. She also was associated fora time with the nearby Mutemwa Leprosy Settlement under John BradburneŠthe subject of two earlier biographical studies by the Revd J. T. Dove(reviewed ante (1987), XIV, 157-8). The second is a collection of Dr Guidotti'sletters to Lucia Orzetti and other friends, the main points of which areincorporated in Luisa.Although Dove's book faithfully and admiringly charts Dr Guidotti's careerand good works, the author fails to give any real impression of her personality,whereas in the case of Bradburne he was highly successful. There is also a greatdifference in the author's handling of the death of his two subjects. Whereas hisdescription of Bradburne's death at the hands of the local population not only wassensitive and moving b ut also had the ring of t ruth, his description of Dr Guidotti'sshooting at a turn-off at the hands of the Rhodesian security forces isunconvincing. Nevertheless, it is useful to have this account of a saintly victim ofthe war.R. S. R.Law and Medicine in Zimbabwe By G. Felloe and T. J. Nyapadi. Harare,Baobab in association with the Legal Resources Foundation, 1989, xvii, 141 pp.,ISBN 0-908311-08-7, Z$20,00.This is a very useful handbook giving a wide coverage of what any health-carepractitioner needs to know Š even including details of contract and employmentof such practitioners. It is a book to be consulted rather than read at a sitting butthe section on reported legal cases adds to the interest. It would have been evenmore interesting and us eful if more had been s aid of the ethics of me dicine that liebehind the law and possibly might conflict with particular laws; but this wouldpossibly have required the participation of a medical practitioner to contributepersonal knowledge and experience Š a feature which enlivened the lateProfessor Gelfand's book, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine (Edinburgh, E. andS. Livingstone, 1968), which the authors might well have cited and used.R. S. R.