Vol. 15 No. 4, July 2002
Index
- Send in the clones?
- A landmark issue.
- From readers.
- E.U., U.S. pledge to increase development assistance.
- Larsen B ice shelf breaks off from Antarctic Peninsula.
- Court case against Shell can proceed.
- U.S. computer waste is poisoning Asia.
- Beyond cloning: the larger agenda of human engineering.
- The science and politics of genetically modified humans: will new genetic technologies be carefully controlled for their benefits--or will they inadvertently destroy civil society? Say hello to the post-human ideology.
- Making well people "better".
- A medical geneticist's view.
- A new racism: just when we thought apartheid had been banished for good.
- Deceptive promises of cures for disease: the great majority of the world's diseases are caused by environmental, not genetic, conditions. A frenzied search for genetic therapies could steal resources from billions in order to serve only a few.
- The new eugenics: it used to be forced sterilization, and the experiments of Dr. Mengele. Now it's genetic technology and the free market. The people who dream of creating a superior race are back.
- Biopirates and the poor.
- Views from around the world.
- What human genetic modification means for women: supporters of the new eugenics want it framed as an issue of "choice." But feminists know we can support abortion rights and still oppose eugenics.
- In defense of nature, human and non-human.
- The human rights perspective.
- The genome as a commons: through all the trials and tribulations of human history, what binds us in the end is our common humanity.
- The war of words and images: some of civilization's most powerful art has sprung from humanity's most anguishing crises, and the pending crisis of human genetic modification is no exception.
- Why environmentalists should be concerned: humans have dangerously destabilized the Earth's ecological system. If we now begin altering our evolved interdependence with nature, we will only accelerate the destabilization.
- Matters of Scale: The Birds.