ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    The Multilingual Mind and Multilingual Societies: In Search of Neuropsychological Explanations of the Spatial Behavior of Ethno-Linguistic Groups
    J. A. Laponce 3

    Commentaries

    The Sociobiology of Ethnolinguistic Nucleation
    William F. Mackey 10

    Thinking about the Optimal Number of Languages
    Jonathan Pool 14

    Neuropsychology and Political Science: The Time Is Not Yet Ripe for Beneficial Interaction
    Harvey Sussman 18

    The Multilingual Mind and Multilingual Societies: A Commentary
    Warren D. TenHouten 19

    Language and Neuropolitics
    Elliott White 21

    Author's Response
    J. A. Laponce 24

    ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    Assuming the Conclusions: Risk Assessment in the Development of Cancer Policy
    Mark E. Rushefsky 31

    Commentaries

    Facts, Values, and Policies
    Leonard A. Cole 45

    Generic Regulations and Generic Critics
    Susan G. Hadden 48

    Risk Assessment and Cancer Policy: Finding the Political Dimension
    Patrick W. Hamlett 50

    Science and Politics in Risk Assessment: A Comment
    Michael E. Kraft 53

    The Changing Scene in U.S. Cancer Policy: Views of a Former Congressional Fellow
    Phillip G. Sokolove 55

    If Risk Assessment Isn't Only Science, Must It Also Be Politics?
    Richard J. Tobin 57

    Author's Response

    Mark E. Rushefsky 60

    BIOPOLITICS BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Bipolitics in 1984
    Steven A. Peterson and Albert Somit 67

    FURTHER COMMENTARY

    Comment on Caldwell
    Marian Van Court and Stephen B. Saetz 72

    RECENT ARTICLES AND PAPERS 75

    BOOK REVIEWS

    The Evolution of Cooperation (Robert Axelrod)
    Précis 76
    James Chowning Davies 76
    Gebhard Geiger 80
    Clara Jones 82
    Nicholas R. Miller 86

    Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology and Its Theories on Women (Ruth Bleier) AND Biopolitics and Gender (Meredith W. Watts, ed.)
    Précis 92
    Monica Moore 92
    Sue Tolleson Rinehart 95
    Carol Cronin Weisfeld and Barbara Hollar 98

    Born to Crime: The Genetic Causes of Criminal Behavior (Lawrence Taylor)
    Précis 103
    W. Buikhuisen 103
    Lawrence Z. Freedman 108
    R. Peter Johnson 109
    Judith Scheman-Baumann 112

    Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences: An Emerging Paradigm (Philippe Van Parijs)
    Précis 114
    Richard B. Carter 114
    Linda Mealey 117
    Kent Moors 118

    RESEARCH/REFERENCE BOOKS OF INTEREST 120

    BOOKS RECEIVED 121

    NEWS 123

    SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS 125