Volume 12, Number 11 · June 5, 1969
A Matter of Life and Death
By C.H. Waddington
Life or Death: Ethics and Options
edited by Daniel H. Labby
University of Washington, 167 pp., $4.95
The Silent Weapons
by Robin Clarke
McKay, 270 pp., $4.95
The Biological Time Bomb
by Gordon Rattray Taylor
World, 240 pp., $5.50
Man, Medicine and Environment
by René Dubos
Praeger, 125 pp., $4.50
So Human an Animal
by René Dubos
Scribner's, 267 pp., $6.95
For the last half century or so, biologists have been used to a rather quiet life, out of the public eye in their academic laboratories or in the back rooms of hospitals and agricultural institutes. The last important occasion of public excitement about their activities was connected with Darwin almost a century ago; even the re-discovery of Mendelism and the rise of genetics in the first quarter of the twentieth century produced little interest in the public mind. When people have spoken of 'scientists,' it has almost invariably been physicists and chemists they had in mind. But the time may now be approaching when biology will no longer be the poor relation of the Natural Sciences, overshadowed by physics and chemistry with their technological offspring in engineering and the manufacturing industry.
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