BOOKS IN REVIEW Data Protection in~ He~b._Ij0_fp_EI~a.tj_on S.y_S_t.eiILS_,ed. G. G. Griesser, A. Bakker, J. Danielsson, J.-C. H i r e l , D. J. Kenny, W. Schneider and A. I . Wasserman. North-Holland, 1980. This volume is one in a series reporting the e f f o r t s of working groups of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), a special i n t e r e s t group w i t h i n the International Federation f o r Information Processing ( I F I P ) . The book represents the results of almost four years of teamwork by an i n t e r national c o l l e c t i o n of s p e c i a l i s t s from various d i s c i p l i n e s . A preliminary version of the t e x t was discussed by the Working Group (no. 4) and additional experts, in a Working Conference held at Noordwijk, the Netherlands on 29-30 May 1979. The book begins with a description of the data protection problem, including d e f i n i
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