ARTICLES
Protecting Fetuses from
Certain Harm
Ernest L. Abel 113
The Poison Weapons Taboo:
Biology, Culture, and Policy
Leonard A. Cole 119
Beyond the Science Wars:
Contemplating the Democratization of Science
Daniel Lee Kleinman 133
Ethical Debates in Genetic
Engineering: U.S. Scientists' Attitudes on Patenting, Germ-Line Research,
Food Labeling, and Agri-Biotech Issues
Isaac Rabino 147
Linking Neuroscience to
Political Intolerance and Political Judgment
George E. Marcus, Sandra L. Wood, and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse 165
Why Science and Technology
Require Political Guidance to Sustain Development
Neil E. Harrison 179
The Protocol to Strengthen
the BTWC: An Integrated Regime
Graham S. Pearson 189
REPORT TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Ethical Aspects of Human Tissue Banking
The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies 203
CONFERENCE REPORT
The 1998 Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 209
BOOK REVIEWS
Blue Skies, Green Politics: The Clean Air Act of 1990 and Its Implementation (Gary C. Bryner)) AND Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (Paul Wapner)
Lynton K. Caldwell 213
Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy (Carol S. Weissert and William G. Weissert)
Karen L. Baird 215
Xenotransplantation: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy (Institute of Medicine) AND Animal-to-Human Transplants: The Ethics of Xenotransplantation (Nuffield Council on Bioethics) Mark J. Hanson 216
Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860-1945: Nature as Model and Nature as Threat (Mike Hawkins)
Larry Arnhart 219
Ethics in Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine: A New Framework (Carson Strong)
Paul Lauritzen 221
Health Care Politics and Policy in America (Kant Patel and Mark Rushefsky)
Karen L. Baird 222
Neuronal Man: The Biology of Mind (Jean-Pierre Changeux)
Robert H. Blank 224
Human By Nature: Between Biology and the Social Sciences (Peter Weingart, Sandra D. Mitchell, Peter J. Richerson, and Sabine Maasen, eds.)
Joseph Losco 226
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)
Roger D. Masters 228
The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability (Arthur R. Jensen)
J. Philippe Rushton 230
Policy Controversy in Biotechnology: An Insider's View (Henry I. Miller)
Patrick A. Stewart 232
Naturalizing the Mind (Fred Dretske)
Elliott White 235
Bittersweet Destiny: The Stormy Evolution of Human Behavior (Del Thiessen)
Walter Lehmann 236
Biotechnology in Latin America: Politics, Impacts, and Risks (N. Patrick Peritore and Ana Karina Galve-Peritore, eds.)
Anita M. Zurbrugg 240
Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance: The Politics of Nature From Place to Planet (Ronnie D. Lipschutz, with Judith Mayer)
Stephen C. Zehr 242
RECENT BOOKS AND ARTICLES 245
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 255
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