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While debates over genetic biomedical innovation have not yet reached a status worthy of the metaphorical invocation of war, the battle has begun. Preceding the U.S. House of Representatives vote in July to ban human cloning, including the cloning of embryos for research, University of Chicago, Illinois, bioethicist Leon Kass publicly endorsed the ban as a means to seize the initiative and to gain some control of the biotechnical project, which he, and others, believe to be the eugenic redesign of future generations. The one known fact about the U.S. President George W. Bush's bioethics council is that Kass has been appointed as its chair.

Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. By Bill McKibben. Times Books/Henry Holt. 271 pp. $25. A most remarkable event occurred in the weeks preceding the June 2000 announcement of […]

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. By Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 256 pp. $25. There are those opposed to the use of cloning technology to create [...]

The telephone rings, and it's Mercy Viana, a press officer at the White House, responding to a query about President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics, the creation of which [...]

Presents several letters to the editor related to articles previously published in this journal. Discussion on presidential voting in France; Reference to the article "The Coup That Wasn't" contrasting Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez with former Chilean President Salvador Allende; Information on Christopher Hitchens' article on religion.

Discusses the impact of managed care system in the United States on the psychotherapy profession. Transfer of economic and clinical control of an estimated $22 billion spent annually on psychotherapy to managed-care companies; Difficulties of implementing managed care in psychotherapy.