On the Global Dimension of Environmental Challenges
Paul Wapner 173

Differences in Responses of Blacks and Whites to American Leaders
Roger D. Masters 183

Transgenesis in Farm Animals: Ethical Implications for Public Policy
T. B. Mepham 195

Flexible Interpretations of "Acid Rain" and the Construction of Scientific Uncertainty in Political Settings
Stephen C. Zehr 205

SYMPOSIUM: REGULATING GERM-LINE GENE THERAPY

Germ-Line Gene Therapy: Keep the Window Open a Crack
Robert Mullan Cook-Deegan 217

Setting Research Priorities: Human Germ-Line Gene Therapy in Perspective
Robert H. Blank 221

Germ-Line Gene Therapy, Autonomy, and Community
Ruth Chadwick 223

Germ-Line Gene Therapy: The Costs of Premature Ultimates
John C. Fletcher 225

Genetic Choices: A Paradigm for Prospective International Ethics?
Bartha Maria Knoppers and Sonia Le Bris 228

Germ-Line Angst and Uncertain Futures
Alex Mauron 230

Germ-Line Gene Therapy: Do We Need an International Approach?
David Shapiro 233

Leave the Door Open to Research
Dorothy C. Wertz 235

Germ-Line Gene Therapy: An Exaggerated Threat
Robert M. L. Winston 237

Germ-Line Gene Therapy: It Is Not Time for Speculation on the Best Level for a Policy Approach
Christian Byk 239

Cultural and Individual Risk Perception in Human Germ-Line Gene Therapy Research
Rita Kielstein 241

Universal Bioethics and the Human Germ-Line
Darryl Macer 243

Demystifying Germ-Line Genetics
Andrea Bonnicksen 246

SYMPOSIUM: PATERNAL-FETAL CONFLICT

Maternal and Paternal Responsibilities to the Fetus Compared: A Trans-Atlantic Comment
J. K. Mason 249

Paternal Obligations During Pregnancy: Breaking New Ground
Janna C. Merrick 251

Paternal-Fetal Conflict: An Idea Whose Time Should Never Come
Lynn M. Paltrow 253

Prenatal Duties of Fathers and Mothers to Prevent Harm to Offspring
John A. Robertson 259

Reaffirming a Need to Reexamine Paternal Responsibilities to the Fetus
Joseph Losco and Mark Shublak 260

CONTINUING DIALOGUE: DUAL-USE TOXINS

A Fourth Option for Limiting the Warfare Potential of Medically Useful Toxins
Zsolt P. Harsanyi 265

Prophylactic Defenses against Toxin Weapons: A Double-Edged Shield
Jonathan B. Tucker 266

PROFILE

Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR)
Gary B. Ellis 271

CONFERENCE REPORT

Crimean Conference on the Biology of Politics
John H. Beckstrom 275

ROUNDTABLE BOOK REVIEW

The Moral Sense (James Q. Wilson)
Reviewed by Larry Arnhart, Roger D. Masters, Arlene Saxonhouse, Malcolm Owen Slavin and Don Greif; with a response by James Q. Wilson 277

BOOK REVIEWS

When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust (Arthur L. Caplan, ed.)
Walter E. Wright 289

Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited: The Unraveling of the American Dream (William Ophuls and A. Stephen Boyan, Jr.)
Lettie M. Wenner 291

The Microbiologist and Biological Defense Research: Ethics, Politics, and International Security (Raymond A. Zilinskas, ed.)
Leonard A. Cole 292

The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby, eds.)
Linda Mealey 294

Biomedical Politics (Kathi E. Hanna, ed.)
Bethany Spielman 296

Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers (Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald)
Sonia Le Bris 298

Nurturing Evolution: The Family as a Social Womb (Richard B. Carter)
Mary Maxwell 300

International Health: A North South Debate (Pan American Health Organization)
Mary Grace Flaherty 301

Sociobiology, Sex, and Science (Harmon R. Holcomb III)
Miriam Levitt 303

Prescribing Our Future: Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling (Dianne M. Bartels, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Arthur L. Caplan, eds.)
Beth A. Fine 305

Darwinism Applied: Evolutionary Paths to Social Goals (John H. Beckstrom)
Hiram Caton 307

Superpigs and Wondercorn: The Brave New World of Biotechnology and Where It All May Lead (Michael W. Fox)
Patrick A. Stewart 309

Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence: A Feminist Approach to Freedom (Linda A. Bell)
Helen Bequaert Holmes 311

Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting (Elizabeth Bartholet)
Arthur L. Greil 313

Hierarchy and Democracy (Albert Somit and Rudolf Wildenmann, eds.)
Michael Franz 314

RECENT BOOKS AND ARTICLES 319

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 327

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