Awards

• Winner of AMWA Medical Book Awards (United States).
• Winner of Science, Technology and Environmental Politics Section: Don K. Price Award (United States).

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Andrea Bonnicksen aptly addresses the scientific, ethical, and policy issues raised by biological research that crosses the human species 'boundary'. She carefully describes the science and deftly handles the ethical and policy considerations. The result is an eminently readable and important contribution to the literature. -Jason Robert, Center for Biology and Society, Arizona State University A highly readable and comprehensive analysis that will stand as a valuable resource for experts and non-experts alike for years to come. There is nothing else out there that can compare with the breadth of this work, or the penetrating insights it offers for contending with some very challenging public policy issues. -Mark Frankel, Director, AAAS Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program From the myths of the chimeras and centaurs onward, human-animal combinations have been the stuff of wonder and fear. Now, technology is bringing myth into reality. Andrea Bonnicksen offers a thorough and insightful overview of the science, ethics, and law of interspecies research. Her careful assessment of each new technology is a necessary prelude to reasoned policy development. -Ronald M. Green, director, Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College This thoroughly researched, philosophically informed, and scholarly study provides a sober yet unsettling assessment of the real potential of biotechnology to challenge our assumptions about the biological basis of being human. -Mark Sagoff, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland

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Andrea L. Bonnicksen is Distinguished Research Professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Crafting a Cloning Policy: From Dolly to Stem Cells and In Vitro Fertilization: Building Policy from Laboratories to Legislatures.

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