POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES SEPTEMBER 2000 • VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2 Appearing in Print February 2004 ISSN: 0730-9384
ROUNDTABLE: BIRTH ORDER AND REBELLIOUSNESS Birth Order and Rebelliousness: Reconstructing the Research in Born To Rebel
Frederic Townsend Commentaries Fraternal Birth Order, Maternal Immune Reactions, and Homosexuality in Men Ray Blanchard In Expectation of Meta-Analysis Cécile Ernst Personality and Birth Order: Explaining the Differences Between Siblings Judith Rich Harris Birth Order and Rebelliousness: Responding to Birth Order Research Contradictions Lawrence Nyman Birth Order and Revolutionary Leadership Kay Phillips and Mostafa Rejai The Birth Order Trap Joseph Lee Rodgers Birth Order and Personality: Is Sulloway’s Treatment a Radical Rebellion or Is He Preserving the Status Quo? B. G. Rosenberg Statistical Correlations, Nomothetic Principles, and Exceptions to the Rule Dean Keith Simonton Born to Rebel: The Science of Birth Order Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson Resolving Controversy over Birth Order and Personality: By Debate or by Design? Delroy L. Paulhus, Paul Wehr, and Paul D. Trapnell Responses Born to Rebel and Its Critics Frank J. Sulloway Reconceptualizing the Influence of Birth Order: A Reply to the Commentators Frank J. Sulloway Taking Born to Rebel Seriously: The Need for Independent Review Frederic Townsend Editorial Science, Sulloway, and Birth Order: An Ordeal and an Assessment Gary R. Johnson ARTICLES Should We Add “Xeno” to “Transplantation”? Laura Purdy The FDA’s Proposal for Public Disclosure of Adverse Events in Gene Therapy Trials Deborah R. Barnbaum BOOK REVIEWS Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat (Joshua S. Lederberg, ed.) Nancy Connell Source Book in Bioethics: A Documentary History (Albert T. Jonsen, Robert M. Veatch, and LeRoy B. Walters, eds.) Andrea Bonnicksen The Meme Machine (Susan Blackmore)Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads through Society (Aaron Lynch)
Hiram Caton Voices and Echoes for the Environment: Public Interest Representation in the 1990s and Beyond (Ronald G. Shaiko) Alice L. Clarke Brain Policy: How the New Neuroscience Will Change Our Lives and Our Politics (Robert H. Blank) Dave Ivers Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior (Nancy L. Segal) Peter K. Smith The Politics of Medicare (Theodore R. Marmor) Mark E. Rushefsky What Makes Us Think? A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue About Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain (Jean-Pierre Changeux and Paul Ricoeur) Elliott White From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice (Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler) Karen J. Maschke Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on Human Nature (John Cartwright) Satoshi Kanazawa Childhood’s Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930 (Evelyn Maxine Hammonds) Miriam Levitt The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy (Leroy Walters and Julie Gage Palmer) Adrienne Asch