Volume 24, Number 17 · October 27, 1977
Fear and DNA
By P.B. Medawar
Playing God: Genetic Engineering and the Manipulation of Life
by June Goodfield
Random House, 218 pp., $8.95
Biohazard
by Michael Rogers
Knopf, 210 pp., $8.95
The Ultimate Experiment: Man-made Evolution
by Nicholas Wade
Walker and Company, 162 pp., $8.95
It is the great glory as it is also the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute. Scientists may exult in the glory, but in the middle of the twentieth century the reaction of ordinary people is more often to cower at the threat.
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