Number 19 ~ Winter 2008

Editorial
John McCain and the Stem Cell Debate
Correspondence
The Logic of Science; Biodiversity and the Bible
Essays
Science and the Left
Yuval Levin on the past and future of the “party of science”
Neuroimaging and Capital Punishment
O. Carter Snead on brain scans and the conflicted aspirations of neuroscience
The Limits of Neuro-Talk
Matthew B. Crawford on the dangers of a mindless brain science
Blogging Infertility
Cheryl Miller on the lively and fractious community of “infertiles”
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Masters and Possessors of Nature
Thomas W. Merrill reads Descartes’ Discourse on Method
Shop Till You Drop?
Jeremy Lott on suburbs, bomb shelters, and bottled water
Sick and Famous
Christy Hall Robinson on celebrity patients as advocates
State of the Art
The Clipboard of the Future
Why Health Care Records Are So Low-Tech
James C. Capretta
Till Malfunction Do Us Part
Predictions of Robotic Intimacy
Caitrin Nicol
The Moral Life of Cubicles
The Utopian Origins of Dilbert’s Workspace
David Franz







