ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    ...Let No One Split Asunder: Controversy in Human Genetic Engineering
    Stanley S. Robin and Gerald E. Markle 3

    Commentaries

    Commentary on "...Let No One Split Asunder: Controversy in Human Genetic Engineering"
    Martin Curd 13

    Cline's Recombinant DNA Experiment as Political Rashomon
    Troy Duster 15

    Ethical Issues and Premature Application of Gene Therapy
    Marc Lappe 19

    A Cork on a Wave
    Allan Mazur 22

    Authors' Response

    Recombinant Reflections
    Stanley S. Robin and Gerald E. Markle 24

    ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    Aggression: Some Definition and Some Psychology
    James Chowning Davies 27

    Commentaries

    The Physiology of the Unicorn
    Paul Fredric Brain 43

    Did Davies Go Far Enough?
    Michael T. McGuire 48

    Problems of Definition and of Identifying Appropriate Levels of Analysis
    Sergio M. Pellis 49

    Author's Response

    James Chowning Davies 52

    BIOPOLITICS BIBLIOGRAPHY

    1986: Boom Year for Biopolitics
    Albert Somit, Steven A. Peterson, and Denise Peer 58

    REPORTS

    Biotechnology: Public Policy and Social Sciences: Critical Needs in Teaching and Research
    Robert H. Blank, Lynton K. Caldwell, Thomas C. Wiegele, and Raymond A. Zilinskas 64

    Developments in the Ethology of Law
    Fred Kort 81

    RECENT BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND PAPERS86

    BOOK REVIEWS

    Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of History (Laura L. Betzig)
    Précis 91
    Larry Arnhart 91
    Gary R. Johnson 93
    Lois B. Moreland 96
    Claude S. Phillips 97

    Cloning and the Constitution: An Inquiry into Governmental Policymaking and Genetic Experimentation (Ira H. Carmen)
    Précis 100
    A. Stephen Boyan, Jr. 100
    Gregory A. Daneke 103
    Kathi E. Hanna 104
    Thomas C. Shevory 106

    Deception: Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit (Robert W. Mitchell and Nicholas S. Thompson, eds.)
    Précis 108
    Newton Copp and David Sadava 108
    Robert S. Feldman 110
    James N. Schubert 111

    Biotechnology: Implications for Public Policy (Sandra Panem, ed.) AND Biotechnology in Society: Private Initiatives and Public Oversight (Joseph G. Perpich, ed.)
    Précis 114
    Walter Truett Anderson 115
    Philip L. Bereano 117
    Odelia Funke 120
    Sheldon Krimsky 123

    Menschen—Staaten—Umwelt [Man—States—Environment] (Franco P. Rota)
    Précis 125
    Vincent S. E. Falger 125
    Wolfgang Tonnesmann 128
    Harry Wiener 131

    NEWS 134

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