Until the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the American view of radical Islam and its many discontents was shaped more by the Middle East than South Asia. The U.S. has long been at odds with the raging Ayatollah in Iran, the murderous truck bomber in Lebanon and the masked Palestinian "freedom...

This volume is the edited transcript of a discussion of the ethics and policy issues of research on so-called test tube babies.

Even as critics complain that the Bush administration has limited stem cell research, state and private funding of such research goes forward.

Genetic manipulation of the human species is coming. In fact, it has arrived.

The transition to market-states has repercussions for global terrorism.

This accessible volume promises to inform the public policy debate over the permissible conduct of genetic research and the permissible uses of its discoveries.

Is it politically desirable for society to credit a designated group called "bioethicists" with expertise in resolving the most difficult moral questions?

On a host of moral issues from birth control to abortion, the time machine is heading back to the 1960s.