Notes

1. . Van Rensselaer Potter, Bioethics: Bridge to the. Future (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1971).
2. . ErnstMayr, “The Nature of the Darwinian Revolution,” Science  1761972:981–89.
3. . T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).
4. . Mayr, p. 988.
5. . John Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970), p. 9 This and subsequent quotations by permission of the publisher.
6. . P. B. Medawar, The Future of Man (London: Methuen, 1960; New York: Basic Books, 1961), p. 53 in the Methuen edition.
7. . R.Seidenberg, “Advertising and the Abuse of Drugs,” New England Journal of Medicine  284 (1971): 789.
8. . Clifford Geertz, “The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man,” in New Views of the Nature of Man, ed. John R. Platt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), pp. 93–118
9. . DanielCallahan, “Living with the New Biology,” Center Magazine  (July-August1972), pp. 4–12.
10. . Ibid., p. 6.
11. . Ibid.
12. . Adapted from Potter, pp. 144–45
13. . Seymour L. Halleck, The Politics of Therapy (New York: Science House, Inc., 1971). By permission of the publisher.
14. . Passmore, p. 169.