ROUNDTABLE: EGG CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER

Transplanting Nuclei between Human Eggs: Implications for Germ-Line Genetics
Andrea L. Bonnicksen 3

Commentaries

Contemporary Ethical Analyses: A Shortfall in Scientific Knowledge
Matthew Bacchetta and Gerd Richter 11

IVONT and The Trojan Horse
Edward M. Berger 12

Genetics in Context: Beyond Autonomy and the Market
Lisa Sowle Cahill 14

Some Conceptual and Ethical Comments on Egg Cell Nuclear Transfer
S. Graumann and H. Haker 17

Identity, Integrity, and Nuclear Transplantation
Nils Holtug 20

Geneticism and Germ-Line: Between Courage and Caution
Bartha Maria Knoppers 22

Researchers and Their Subjects as Neighbors
John Lachs 24

Nuclear Meltdown: Ethics of the Need to Transfer Genes
Glenn McGee and Daniel B. McGee 26

Germ-Line Manipulations, Private Industry, and Secrecy
David B. Resnick 29

The Fears of Looking in the Mirror
Donald S. Rubenstein 31

Genetic Engineering of Human Eggs and Embryos: Prelude to Cloning
Carol M. Warner 33

A Welcome Alert to Backdoor Germ-Line Therapy
Hilary Rose 34

Response

Egg Nuclear Transfer Continued:  Infertility Treatment
Andrea Bonnicksen 36

ARTICLES

Coming to Terms with the Microenvironment: Ending the War and Winning the Peace
Robert Hunt Sprinkle 39

The Evocative Nature of Kin Terminology in Political Rhetoric
Catherine A. Salmon 51

Evolution, Mobility, and Ethnic Group Formation
David Goetze 59

REPORT TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

The Ethical Aspects of the Fifth Research Framework Program
Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology 73

BOOK REVIEWS

Proceedings of the Seminar on Responding to the Consequences of Chemical and Biological Terrorism, July 11-14, 1995 (Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Public Health Service)
Leonard A. Cole 77

Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy: The Biological Basis of Authoritarianism (Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson)
Carol Barner-Barry 79

Fetal Rights, Womenís Rights: Gender Equality in the Workplace (Suzanne Uttaro Samuels)
Robert H. Blank 80

Body Parts: Property Rights and the Ownership of Human Biological Materials (E. Richard Gold)
Kathryn E. Eisenhart 82

War and Public Health (Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel, eds.)
D.A. Henderson 84

Federalism and the Environment: Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada, and the United States
(Kenneth M. Holland, F.L. Morton, and Brian Galligan)
Charles R. Epp 85

Limits: The Role of the Law in Bioethical Decision Making (Roger B. Dworkin)
Deborah Mathieu 87

The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-Coalitional Reproductive Strategy (Johan Matheus Gerardus van der Dennen)
George Modelski 88

Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Science, Policy, and Social Issues (Sheldon Krimsky and Roger P. Wrubel)
Denise Scheberle 90

Research in Biopolitics: Volume 4 (Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson, eds.)
Stephen C. Maxson 92

Practical Reasoning in Bioethics (James F. Childress)
Sharon E. Systema 93

Dominion: Can Nature and Culture Co-Exist? (Niles Eldredge)
Steven A. Peterson 96

The Evolving Female: A Life-History Perspective (Mary Ellen Morbeck, Alison Galloway, Adrienne L. Zihlman, eds.)
Clara B. Jones 97

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson)
John M. Strate 99

Coerced Contraception?  Moral and Policy Challenges of Long-Acting Birth Control (Ellen H. Moskowitz and Bruce Jennings, eds.)
Laura R. Woliver 101

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