ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

Biobehaviorism and Small Group Research
Mark A. Emmert 3

Commentaries

The Journey Along the Naturalistic-To-Bureaucratic Continuum: Another Route
Stephen H. Balch 10

Can Social Hierarchy and Egalitarianism Both Be Ascribed to the Same Causal Forces?
Christopher Boehm 12

Individuals: Key Elements in Biobehavioral Group Research
William R. Charlesworth 14

Comments by a Political Scientist
Luther Gulick 16

Muddying a First-Rate Approach to Small Group Research
John C. Honey 18

Comments on "Biobehaviorism and Small Group Research"
Allan Mazur 20

A Comment on "Biobehaviorism and Small Group Research"
James N. Schubert 22

Author's Response
Mark A. Emmert 23

ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

The Life Sciences and the Public: Is Science Too Important To Be Left to the Scientists?
Malcolm L. Goggin 28

Commentaries

Governing Science: Questions and Challenges
Leonard A. Cole 40

The Role of Science in Science Policy
Harold P. Green 42

Commentary on "The Life Sciences and the Public"
Rachelle D. Hollander and William A. Blanpied 44

Science and Democracy: A Commentary
Bruce Jennings 47

Pure Science and Impure Scientists: Dilemmas for Public Policy
Sheldon Krimsky 49

Diversions and Confusions in the Debate over the Governance of Science and Technology
Todd R. La Porte 51

The Tyranny of the Bell-Shaped Curve: Who Should Be Protected from Risk-Generating Activities?
Marc Lappé 53

Regulating Research in the Public Interest
Helen Leskovac 55

Runaway Science or Science Overrun?
Helen E. Longino 57

Biomedical Research and Contracts: A Commentary on Goggin's Article
Philip Siekevitz 59

A Qualified Vote for Self-Regulation
Leon E. Trachtman 61

Commentary on Goggin's Article
Alvin M. Weinberg 64

The Life Sciences and the Public: Is the New Biology Too Important To Be Left to the Entrepreneurs?
Leon Wofsy 65

Author's Response

Threats to Freedom from a Tyranny of the Minority
Malcolm L. Goggin 68

BIOPOLITICS BIBLIOGRAPHY

Biopolitics in 1983
Steven A. Peterson and Albert Somit 76

Developments in Biopolitics in Finland
Tatu Vanhanen 80

FURTHER COMMENTARY

Biotechnology: The Key to Third World Development
H. Monte Hill 84

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Political Science, Social Organization, and Environment
Franco P. Rota 87

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BOOK REVIEWS

Politics and the Restraint of Science (Leonard A. Cole)
Précis 93
Jo Renee Formicola 93
Mark S. Frankel 94
Ray Geigle 96
Mark E. Rushefsky 97

The Synergism Hypothesis: A Theory of Progressive Evolution (Peter A. Corning)
Précis 100
Michael T. Ghiselin 100
Christian R. Hess 102
Joan S. Lockard 105
Roger D. Masters 107

Law, Biology and Culture — The Evolution of Law (Margaret Gruter and Paul Bohannan, eds.)
William Kitchin 108
Fred Kort 112
Fred H. Willhoite, Jr. 114
Cathie J. Witty 117

Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology (P. B. Medawar and J. S. Medawar)
Michael Andregg 119
Stephen Kendrick 121
John C. Wahlke 122
Meredith W. Watts 123

BOOKS RECEIVED126

NEWS128

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