Science and Society—Toward Wider Horizons

The Future of Biology and Medicine

The Book of Life, R. L. Sinsheimer (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1967).

"The end of the beginning," R. L. Sinsheimer, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, vol. 23, no. 2 (February 1967): 8–12.

"Darkly wise and rudely great," R. L. Sinsheimer, Engineering & Science (CIT, May 1968), 20–28.

"The prospect for designed genetic change," R. L. Sinsheimer, Engineering & Science (April 1969); reprinted in American Scientist 57 (1969): 134–42.

"Generic engineering: The modification of man," R. L. Sinsheimer, Impact of Science on Society 20 (1970): 279–89.

"The implications of recent advances in biology for the future of medicine," R. L. Sinsheimer, Engineering & Science (October 1970).

"Whither Molecular Biology," R. L. Sinsheimer, Engineering & Science (March/April 1977), 29–34.

"Genetic engineering and gene therapy: Some implications," R. L. Sinsheimer, in Genetic Issues in Public Health and Medicine, ed. B. H. Cohen, A. M. Lilienfeld, and P. C. Huang (Springfield, Ill.: C. C. Thomas, 1978), ch. 21:429–61.

"The awesome powers we face," R. L. Sinsheimer, American Medical News (26 January 1979).

"Key Disciplines of the New Biology: Genetics, Immunology, and Neurobiology," R. L. Sinsheimer (delivered at the conference sponsored by the University of North Carolina and the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation), in The New Biology and Medical Education: Merging the Biological, Information, and Cognitive Sciences, ed. C. P. Friedman and E. F. Powell (Independent Publishers Group, 1983).

Recombinant DNA and Genetic Engineering

"The Dilemma of DNA," R. L. Sinsheimer, in Wednesday Night at the Lab: Antibiotics, Bioengineering, Contraceptives, Drugs and Ethics, ed. K. L. Rinehart, Jr., W. O. McClure, and T. L. Brown (Harper and Row, 1973), 121–34.

"Genetic engineering: Ambush or opportunity?" R. L. Sinsheimer, Queens Quarterly, vol. 80, no. 2 (1973): 157–79.

"Troubled dawn for genetic engineering," R. L. Sinsheimer, New Scientist 68 (1975): 148–51.

"The hazards of recombinant DNA," R. L. Sinsheimer, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, vol. 1, no. 8 (August 1976).

"Recombinant DNA—On Our Own," R. L. Sinsheimer, Bioscience (October 1976), 599.

"An evolutionary perspective for genetic engineering," R. L. Sinsheimer, New Scientist 73 (1977): 150–52.

"Mapping the mammalian genome: Potential risks," Research with Recombinant DNA, R. L. Sinsheimer (delivered at the Academy Forum of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 7–9 March 1977), 74–89.

"Prospects and dangers of experimentation with recombinant DNA," R. L. Sinsheimer, Grenzen der Forschung (Colloquium Verlag Berlin, 1980), 65–75.

"Genetic engineering: Life as a plaything," R. L. Sinsheimer, Technology Review, vol. 86, no. 3 (April 1983): 14–15, 70.

"Recombinant DNA and Biological Warfare," Susan Wright and R. L. Sinsheimer, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (November 1983), 20–26.

"Reminiscences of the Recombinant DNA Story," with comments by R. L. Sinsheimer, Bio Essays, vol. 1, no. 2 (1984): 83–84.

"Biotechnology: The Public Concerns," R. L. Sinsheimer, Journal Minnesota Academy of Sciences, vol. 53, no. 1 (1987): 16–20.

Philosophical Implications

"The brain of Pooh: An essay on the limits of mind," R. L. Sinsheimer, Engineering & Science (January 1970): 8–13, 36–39; reprinted in American Scientist (January/February 1971).

"Science and the Quest for Human Values," R. L. Sinsheimer, in Science and Human Values in the Twenty-first Century, ed. Ralph W. Burhoe, (Westminster Press, 1971): 116–34.

"A Time of Metamorphosis," R. L. Sinsheimer, Engineering & Science (May/June 1971), 18–20.

"Echoes of the future," R. L. Sinsheimer, The Journal of the Blaisdell Institute, vol. 7, nos. 3 and 4 (1972): 4–12.

"The Molecular Basis of Life," R. L. Sinsheimer, in The Heritage of Copernicus: Theories "More Pleasing to the Mind, " ed. J. Neyman (MIT Press, 1974), 143–65.

"On Coupling Inquiry and Wisdom," R. L. Sinsheimer (delivered at the 1976 Meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists, San Francisco, 8 June 1976), Federation Proceedings 35 (1976): 2540–42.

"An inquiry into inquiry," R. L. Sinsheimer, Engineering & Science, California Institute of Technology (May/June 1976), 15–17; reprinted in The Hastings Center Report 6 (1976): 18.

"Humanism and Science," R. L. Sinsheimer, Engineering & Science (CIT, October/November 1975), 10–13, reprinted in Leonardo 10 (Pergamon Press, 1977), 59–62.

"The Galilean Imperative," R. L. Sinsheimer, in Recombinant DNA: Science, Ethics, and Politics, ed. John Richards (Academic Press, 1978), 17–32.

"Genetic Intervention and Values: Are All Men Created Equal?" R. L. Sinsheimer, in Modifying Man: Implications and Ethics, ed. Craig W. Ellison (University Press of America, 1978), 109–35.

"The presumptions of science," R. L. Sinsheimer, Daedalus (1978): 23–35.

"Technology can free, but it can also impose its own constraints," R. L. Sinsheimer, in Report on the Douglas Convocation of the State of Individual Freedom (held 7–8 December 1978), under "Freedom and the New Property," 61–63; reprinted in Center Magazine (Santa Barbara, Calif., 1979).

"The Answer Is Not Necessarily the Solution," R. L. Sinsheimer, Engineering & Science, CIT, vol. 52, no. 1 (CIT, Fall 1988): 28–31.

"The Responsibility of Scientists," in Preventing A Biological Arms Race, ed. Susan Wright (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990), ch. 3.