Special Issue: Teaching about Politics and the Life Sciences
A COMMENT FROM THE EDITOR 3
OVERVIEW OF CURRICULAR CONCERNS
The Place of Biopolitics
in the Political Science Curriculum
William Kitchin 5
Teaching Biopolitics: Needs,
Experiences, Problems, and Prospects
Fred Kort 14
The Anatomy of Teaching
Biopolitics: Some Reflections
Richard Shelly Hartigan 22
The Unteachables: Biopolitics
Courses
Steven A. Peterson 28
The Politics of Teaching
Biopolitics
David A. Gugin 31
Teaching about Sex Differences
in Human Behavior and the Biological Approach in General
Glenn E. Weisfeld 36
SPECIFIC COURSES IN POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES
Evolutionary International
Relations: A Biopolitical Framework for Teaching World Politics
Jack O'Neill 44
Teaching at the Interface
between Genetics and Law
Henry M. Butzel 54
Teaching Biopolitics in
a Professional Curriculum
Patrick G. O'Hara 59
Teaching Biomedical Policy
to Undergraduates
Robert H. Blank 67
On Teaching Biopolicy and
Values in Selected Reproductive Technologies: Abortion, In Vitro Fertilization,
and Surrogate Motherhood
Lois B. Moreland 75
Teaching Nature, to Learn
from Nature
Alfredo Milanaccio 83
Teaching Politics to Nurses
Terry Bristol 92
INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES
Teaching Biopolitics in
Germany
Heiner Flohr 103
Teaching Biopolitics to
Humanities Students
Hiram Caton 113
COMMENTARIES
Commentary on Teaching Biopolitics
John C. Honey 122
On Teaching Biopolitics
John C. Wahlke 125
BIOPOLITICS BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biopolitics in 1985
Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson 132
LETTERS 137
RESEARCH COMMENTARY
An Introduction to Nonparticipant Observational Research Techniques
Carol Barner-Barry 139
RECENT ARTICLES AND PAPERS 148
BOOK REVIEWS
Culture and the Evolutionary Process (Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson)
Précis 149
Marco Bacciagaluppi 149
Mark A. Emmert 151
Linda Mealey 152
John Rashford 154
The Language of the Heart (James J. Lynch)
Précis 155
Doris A. Graber 155
Anastasia Kucharski 157
Jerrold M. Post 158
Thomas C. Wiegele 159
Political Culture and Judicial Behavior (Glendon Schubert)
Précis 162
C. F. Abel 162
Werner F. Grunbaum 164
Roger Handberg 165
William Kitchin 167
Leaders under Stress: A Psychophysiological Analysis of International Crises
(Thomas C. Wiegele, Gordon Hilton, Kent Layne Oots, and Susan V. Kisiel)
Précis 170
Roger A. Drake 170
Joseph V. Montville 171
Stephen G. Walker 173
Meredith W. Watts 175
BOOKS RECEIVED 178
NEWS 180
SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS 185
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