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| Series Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| An Uneasy Balance: Science Advising and the Politicization of Science | |
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| Big Science: The Human Genome Project and the Public Funding of Science | |
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| Funding Biomedical Research: Peer Review versus Pork Barrel | |
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| Choosing Research Directions: Advocacy, the "Disease-of-the-Month," and Congressional Oversight | |
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| Who Owns the Genome? The Patenting of Human Genes | |
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| Who Owns Life? Mr. Moore's Spleen | |
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| The Canavan Disease Patent Case | |
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| Manufacturing Children: Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Self-Regulation by Scientists and Clinicians | |
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| Brave New World Revisited: Human Cloning and Stem Cells | |
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| The Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA: A Model for Self-Regulation? | |
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| Protecting the Public: The FDA and New AIDS Drugs | |
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| Seminal Events: The Evolution of Regulations for Research | |
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| Placebo Controls in Clinical Research | |
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| Cosmetic Science: Breast Implants and the Courts | |
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| Setting Limits on Expert Testimony: Bendectin and Birth Defects | |
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| DNA Forensics in Criminal Trials: How New Science Becomes Admissible | |
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| Selling Science: New Cancer Treatments and the Media | |
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| Responsible Journalism: Are There Health Risks from Electromagnetic Fields? | |
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| Concealing Evidence: Science, Big Business, and the Tobacco Industry | |
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| The Academic-Industrial Complex and Conflict of Interest | |
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| The Darker Side of Science: Scientific Misconduct | |
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| Science in the National Interest: Bioterrorism and Civil Liberties | |
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| Emerging Diseases: SARS and Government Responses | |
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| Limiting Research in an Age of Bioterrorism | |
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| Science Misunderstood: Genetically Modified Organisms and International Trade | |
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| Mad Cow Disease, International Trade, and the Loss of Public Trust | |
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| Dangers in the Environment: Air Pollution Policy | |
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| Environmental Poisoning: Mitigating Lead Exposure | |
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| Can We Ever Be Safe? Risk and Risk Assessment | |
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| Who Lives and Who Dies? Organ Transplantation | |
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| Animals as Organ Factories: Xenotransplantation | |
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| Is There a Right to Die? | |
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| Concluding Remarks: The Challenges of Science Policy | |
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| Index | |