ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES
Theoretical Issues in the
Regulation of Genetically Engineered Organisms: The Case of Deliberate Release
Amal Kawar and Richard Sherlock 129
Commentaries
Theoretical Issues in the Regulation of Genetically Engineered Organisms:
A Commentary
Frederick H. Buttel 135
Science, Biopolitics and Risk: Margins of Uncertainty
Sheldon Krimsky 140
Environmental Protection and Uncertainty: The Case of Deliberative
Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms
Judith Miller 142
Taming the Technological Imperative: A Comment
Jerome R. Ravetz 145
Commentary on Kawar and Sherlock
Burke K. Zimmerman 148
ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES
Self-Selection and Social
Life: The Neuropolitics of Alienation— The Trapped and the Overwhelmed
Elliott White 154
Commentaries
Self-Selection and Social Life: It Still Takes Two to Tango
David A. Bositis 171
Cognitive Capacity: An Overlooked Component of Political Behavior
Lester A. Milbrath 173
Space-Time Horizons, Alternative Environments, Consciousness
Jack O'Neill 175
Author's Response
Elliott White 179
ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES
The Nuclear Arms Race:
An Evolutionary Perspective
Arthur A. Joyce 186
Commentaries
A Population-Pressure Alternative to a Sociobiological Theory of the Rise
of Escalatory Intergroup Competition
Robert Bates Graber 203
Perceived Threat, Spending, Reproduction, and the Nuclear Arms Race
Thomas J. Hoffman 206
Keys to a Unified Theory of Warfare and Arms Races
R. Paul Shaw and Yuwa Wong 209
BOOK REVIEWS
Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests over Populated Areas
(Leonard A. Cole)
Précis 223
Hugh L'Etang 223
Kent Layne Oots 224
Thomas C. Wiegele 226
Raymond A.Zilinskas 227
Premenstrual Syndrome: Ethical and Legal Implications in a Biomedical
Perspective (Benson E. Ginsburg and Bonnie Frank Carter, eds.)
Précis 232
Diane D. Blair 232
Robert H. Blank 234
Susette M. Talarico 235
Governing Science and Technology in a Democracy (Malcolm L. Goggin,
ed.)
Précis 237
Diana B. Dutton 237
Sanford Lakoff 240
Claire Nader 242
Mark E. Rushefsky 246
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 Kelly)
Précis 248
James C. Davies 249
Robert E. Rosenwein 251
Robert L. Savage 254
Glendon Schubert 256
The Impact of Illness on World Leaders (Bert Edward Park)
Précis 258
Cynthia A. Hody 258
Barbara Kellerman 261
Roger D. Masters 262
RECENT BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND PAPERS 264
NEWS 266
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