Former Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, Tufts University
Book Reviews
- Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science, Philip Mirowski, Harvard University Press, 2011.
- The Bridge at the Edge of the World, James Gustave Speth, Yale University Press, Issues in Science & Technology XXV(2):89-90 (2008).
- Welcome to Biotech Nation, Moira A. Gunn, American Management Association, 2007 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 29:382-383 (2007).
- University Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education, Jennifer Washburn, Academe 91(5):63-64 (September-October), 2005.
- Recoding Nature: Critical Perspectives on Genetic Engineering, Richard Hindmarsh and Geoffrey Lawrence, eds., The Quarterly Review of Biology 80:474(2005)
- The Great Betrayal, Horace Freeland Judson. Harcourt, Inc. 2004, Nature Medicine 11(6):591 (June 2005).
- The Hope, Hype & Reality of Genetic Engineering, John C. Avise, Oxford University Press, 2004, The Quarterly Review of Biology 79:506-507 (September 2004).
- The Fluoride Deception, Chirstopher Bryson, Seven Stories Press, 2004, Chemical and Engineering News, August 16, 2004, pp.35-36.
- Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth, Barbara Seaman, Hyperion Books, 2003, Journal of Public Health Policy Vol.24, No.3/4 (2003), pp.479-483.
- Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science, Jon Beckwith, Harvard University Press, 2002, Science and Engineering Ethics Vol.9, Issue 3 (2003), pp.435-437.
- Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate, John H. Evans, University of Chicago Press, 2003, The Quarterly Review of Biology Vol.78, No. 2 (June 2003), pp.211-212.
- Who Owns Academic Work: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property, Corynne McSherry, Harvard University Press, 2001, Nature Medicine Vol.8, No. 4 (April 2002), p. 1.
- The Recombinant DNA Controversy: A Memoir, Donald S. Fredrickson, ASM Press, 2001, The American Scientist Vol.89 (Nov.-Dec. 2001), pp.564-565.
- The Society of Cells: Cancer and Control of Cell Proliferation, C. Sonnenschein and A. M. Soto. Bios Scientific Publishers, UK, 1999, BioScience Vol. 49, No. 9 (September 1999), pp. 747-8.
- Research Misconduct: Issues, Implications and Strategies, E. Altman and P. Hernon, eds. The New England Journal of Medicine, 339(8): 568 (Aug. 20, 1998).
- The Biotech Century: Harnessing The Gene and Remaking The World, Jeremy Rifkin. Nature, 393:31-32 (May 7, 1998).
- Dealing with Risk, by Howard Margolis, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 554:230-231 (Nov.1997).
- Enabling the Safe Use of Biotechnology: Principles and Practice and Appropriate Oversight for Plants with Inherited Traits for Resistance to Pests, Environment, Vol. 39, Number 5, pages 27-30, 1997.
- Review: Three books on chemical weapons, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 43(8): 55-57 (September 1985).