Recent Advances in the Developmental Biology of Central Nervous System Malformations

for determining human death by Alexander Capron and Leon Kass. As in all new editions, some wheat was thrown out with the chaff-in this case, a simple, clear discussion of dying by Robert Morison was lost. The addition of three new articles on existential psychology, bodily immortality, and fear of dying seemed strangely inappropriate; perhaps the editors, in designing this text for use in undergraduate courses, were forced to cater to student tastes. The biggest bonus of the new edition is the revision, expansion, and reorganization of the sectional bibliographies. Separated by section into abortion, mental illness, human experimentation, human genetics, and dying, the bibliographies have been improved and made more accessible to the reader by a shift in format from chaincitation listings to ordered, clear bibliographic entries. This feature combines with the carefully selected articles to yield a valuable resource for the student or general reader seeking an introduction to biomedical ethics. (A special note-each copy should be inspected before purchase: my copy had pages 531-562 omitted and pages 563-594 inserted twice.)