Feminism and the Politics
of Reproductive Strategies
Laurette T. Liesen 145
Commentaries
Nature and Culture in Feminist Biology
Larry Arnhart 163
Sociobiology, Ideology, and Feminism
Lynda Birke 165
On Unnatural Dichotomies, Reproductive Strategies, and the Naturalness of Reproduction
Nancy Tyler Burley 167
Sociobiology, Feminism, and Morality
James S. Chisholm 169
Attacking Feminism is No Substitute for Good Scholarship
Anne Fausto-Sterling 171
False Criticisms of Sociobiology and Behavioral Ecology: Genetic Determinism, Untestability, and Inappropriate Comparisons
Patricia Adair Gowaty 174
From Inclusive Fitness to Neuroscience: Proximate Mechanisms, Feminism, and the Politics of Gender
Roger D. Masters 180
Feminism and Selfish Genes
Francois Nielsen
A Plea for Less Attention to Monkeys and Apes, and More to Human Biology and Evolutionary Psychology
Alice S. Rossi 182
Sociobiology and Monotony: On the Need for a Polyphonic Social Science
Stephen G. Salkever 185
Primatism? Bugs, Birds, and Rodents Are Important Too
Joanna E. Scheib 190
Sociobiology: Its Evolution and Intellectual Descendants
Judy A. Stamps 191
Response
Beyond the Dualism of Nature and Culture: Sex and the Frontiers of Human Nature Theory
Laurette T. Liesen 194
ARTICLES
Mandating Treatment for
Pregnant Substance Abusers: A Compromise
Deborah Mathieu 199
From Verification to Strengthening
Compliance: Prospects and Challenges of the Biological Weapons Convention
Marie Isabelle Chevrier 209
HIV and the Blood Supply:
Assessing MANTRA Legislation
Carolyn R. Thompson 221
SYMPOSIUM: BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS INSPECTION
Symposium of United Nations Biological Weapons Inspectors: Implications of the Iraqi Experience for Biological Arms Control
Forward
Raymond A. Zilinskas (ed.) 229
UNSCOM and the UNSCOM Experience in Iraq
Raymond A. Zilinskas 230
The Role of Declarations in UNSCOM's Program in Iraq
Anna Johnson-Winegar 236
On-Site Inspection Measures and Interviews
David L. Huxsoll 238
Biological Sampling and Analysis Procedures for the United Nations
Special Commission (UNSCOM) in Iraq
Alan J. Mohr 240
Inventory Control of Dual-Use Equipment
David R. Franz 244
Remote Monitoring of Dual-Capable Biological Facilities in Iraq
Jonathan B. Tucker 247
Detecting and Deterring Biological Weapons in Iraq: The Role of Aerial
Surveillance
Raymond A. Zilinskas 255
United Nations Biological Warfare Inspectors in Iraq: Implications for
Biological Arms ControlOne Canadian's Perspective
Allen A. St-Onge 259
ASM and Biological Arms Control
Kenneth I. Berns 262
PROFILE
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
David Shapiro 263
REPORT TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
The Ethical Implications of Gene Therapy
Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology 267
BOOK REVIEWS
Human In Vitro Fertilization: A Case Study in the Regulation of Medical
Innovation (Jennifer Gunning and Veronica English)
Robert H. Blank 269
Fremdenfeindlichkeit: Biosoziale Grundlagen von Ethnozentrismus (Anne Katrin Flohr)
Vincent S.E. Falger 271
Cancer From Beef: DES, Federal Food Regulation, and Consumer Confidence (Alan I Marcus)
William Green 273
Profession of Conscience: The Making and Meaning of Life-Sciences Liberalism (Robert Hunt Sprinkle)
Carson Holloway 275
Ethical Issues in Scientific Research: An Anthology (Edward Erwin, Sidney Gendin, and Lowell Kleiman, eds.) AND The Ethical Dimensions
of the Biological Sciences (Ruth Ellen Bulger, Elizabeth Heitman, and Stanley Joel Reiser, eds.)
Helen Bequaert Holmes 277
Facing Limits: Ethics and Health Care for the Elderly (Gerald R. Winslow and James W. Walters, eds.)
Susan K. McIntosh 279
Genes for Sale: Privatization as a Conservation Policy (Joseph Henry Vogel)
Jeffrey A. McNeely 282
Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance (Steven Goldberg) AND The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex (Warren Farrell)
Linda Mealey 284
Sex and Reason (Richard Posner)
Marcel Roele 286
Staying Human in the Organization: Our Biological Heritage and the Workplace (J. Gary Bernhard and Kalman Glantz)
Frank Kemp Salter 289
Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation (Stephen Breyer)
Denise Scheberle 291
Beyond NIMBY: Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States (Barry G. Rabe)
Robert Seeliger 293
Biomedical Policy (Robert H. Blank)
Thomas C. Shevory 295
Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge (Henry C. Plotkin)
Eric A. Smith 296
Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies (John A. Robertson)
Carson Strong 298
Genetics and Experience: The Interplay Between Nature and Nurture (Robert Plomin)
Elliott White 300
RECENT BOOKS AND ARTICLES 303
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 309
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