ARTICLES

Is Humanity Destined to Self-Destruct?
Lynton Keith Caldwell 3

The Human Genome Diversity Project: Ethical Problems and Solutions
David B. Resnik 15

Marine Biotechnology: A Proposal for Regulatory Reform
Peter J. Balint 25

Vigorous Shaking of Political Prisoners as a Means of Interrogation: Physical, Affective, and Neuropsychological Sequelae
Norm O'Rourke 31

A Political Ecology Perspective on Environmental Change in Malawi with the Blantyre Fuelwood Project Area as a Case Study
Ezekiel Kalipeni and Deborah Feder 37

SYMPOSIUM

Responding to the Challenge of Biological WarfareóA Matter of Contending Paradigms of Thought and Action
(Susan Wright and Richard Falk, eds.)

Responding to the Challenge of Biological WarfareóA Matter of Contending Paradigms of Thought and Action: Introduction
Susan Wright and Richard Falk 55

UNSCOM and the Iraqi Biological Weapons Program: Implications for Arms Control
Stephen Black 62

Cowboy Warfare, Biological Diplomacy: Disarming Metaphors as Weapons of Mass Destruction
Tareq Y. Ismael and Jacqueline S. Ismael 70

Tall Order: Crafting a Meaningful Verification Protocol for the Biological Weapons Convention
Amy E. Smithson 86

Putting Teeth into the BWC: An Indian View
P.R. Chari and Giri Deshingkar 86

The Role of the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries in Strengthening the Biological Disarmament Regime
William Muth 92

Biological Warfare and Disarmament Problems, Perspectives, and Possible Solutions: Complementary Measures Inside and Outside the Framework of the BWC
Hassan Mashhadi 98

The Patent Regime and Implementing Article X of the BTWC: Some Reflections
Biswajit Dhar and Sachin Chaturvedi 103

Towards a New Paradigm: Comprehensive Security, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Biological Weapons
Praful Bidwai 109

Assessing the Challenges of Biological Weaponry in the Late 1990s
Richard Falk 112

COMMENTARY

IVF and the Internet
Robert H. Blank 119

REPORT TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Ethical Aspects of Research Involving the Use of Human Embryos in the Context of the Fifth Framework Program
The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies 123

BOOK REVIEWS

The Price of Life: The Future of American Health Care (Robert H. Blank)
Deborah Mathieu 131

The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics (Paul Lawrence Farber)
Larry Arnhart 132

Improving Nature? The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Michael J. Reiss and Roger Straughan) AND Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality (Maxwell J. Mehlman and Jeffrey R. Botkin)
Robert H. Blank 134

Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism (Kevin B. MacDonald)
Aurelio José Figueredo 136

Environmental Politics: Domestic and Global Dimensions (Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer with Gary Bryner)
Michael M. Gunter, Jr. 138

Prospects of Democracy: A Study of 172 Countries (Tatu Vanhanen)
George Modelski 140

Private Medicine and Public Health: Profit, Politics and Prejudice in the American Health Care Enterprise (Lawrence D. Weiss)
Carolyn R. Thompson 142

The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering (Susan Aldridge)
K. Ravi Srinivas 144

Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (Elliot Sober and David Sloan Wilson)
Iver Mysterud 145

Aggression: Biological, Developmental, and Social Perspectives (Seymour Feshbach and Jolanta Zagrodzka, eds.)
Sven van de Wetering 149

Not Even Wrong: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and the Samoans (Martin Orans) AND The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research (Derek Freeman)
Hiram Caton 151

Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature (Larry Arnhart)
Laurette T. Liesen 155

Improving Health in the Community: A Role for Performance Monitoring (Jane S. Durch, Linda A. Bailey, and Michael A. Stoto, eds; Institute of Medicine, Committee on Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health)
William F. Pilkington 157

Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean (Michael E. Levin)
Jerry Hirsch 159

Wetlands of the American Midwest (Hugh Prince)
Lettie McSpadden 161

The Pattern of Evolution (Niles Eldredge)
Robert S. Robins 163

RECENT BOOKS AND ARTICLES 167

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 177

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