Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies
Edited by Leon R. Kass
254 pages; Washington, D.C.: President's Council of Bioethics; $45
0-7567-4166-1

Excerpt: "In many ways, Reproduction and Responsibility is a watershed document. The Council has taken an issue that has so far been too hot to touch in the American context, and treated it not ideologically but pragmatically. The report examines in straightforward prose the abstruse details of biotechnology and public policy, and it makes the subject seem terribly urgent."

The full text of this review is available in the December 17, 2004, Times Literary Supplement, page 28.