ROUNDTABLE

    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 Control—One 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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