Special Issue: Medicine and Political Behavior
ARTICLES
Ethical Dilemmas of the
President's Physician
Robert S. Robins and Henry Rothschild 3
The Effect of Drugs on
Political Decisions
Hugh L'Etang 12
Personality, Role Strains,
and Alcoholism: Key Pittman as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Betty Glad 18
Disability, Illness, and
the Presidency: The Case of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Robert E. Gilbert 33
Presidential Disability:
Past Experiences and Future Implications
Bert E. Park 50
BIOPOLITICS BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biopolitics: Publication Patterns in 1987
Albert Somit, Steven A. Peterson, and KyoungKyo Seo 67
FURTHER COMMENTARY
Evolutionary Controversy and Biopolitics—Separating Issues from Rhetoric:
A Commentary on Gans' Essay "Punctuated Equilibria and Political Science"
Brian A. Gladue 72
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
In the Matter of "Baby M": Report from the Gruter Institute for Law and
Behavior Research
Robin Fox 77
RECENT BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND PAPERS 86
BOOK REVIEWS
The Biology of Moral Systems (Richard D. Alexander)
Précis 91
Claudio Campagna 91
Stuart C. Gilman 92
David A. Gugin 94
Richard Shelly Hartigan 96
Genetics in the Courts (Henry M. Butzel)
Précis 99
Lynton K. Caldwell 99
W. Robert Gump 101
George Steven Swan 102
Winston Churchill's Afternoon Nap: A Wide-Awake Inquiry into the
Human Nature of Time (Jeremy Campbell) AND Time and Human
Interaction: Toward a Social Psychology of Time (Joseph E. McGrath and
Janice R. Kelly)
Précis 104
James Chowning Davies 105
Robert E. Rosenwein 107
Robert L. Savage 110
Glendon Schubert 112
The Sociobiology of Ethnocentrism: Evolutionary Dimensions of
Xenophobia, Discrimination, Racism and Nationalism (Vernon Reynolds,
Vincent Falger, and Ian Vine, eds.)
Précis 114
Joseph Losco 114
Kent Layne Oots 116
Dov Ronen 117
Franz M. Wuketits 119
BOOKS RECEIVED 122
NEWS 123
SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS 126
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