Recap

Rick Carlson and Gary Stimeling

Health-care consultant Carlson (The End of Medicine) and writer Stimeling (coauthor of The Body Electric) offer an assessment of biotechnologyįs promise and peril, with emphasis on the peril. Insisting that not enough attention is paid to biotechnologyįs potential dangers, they voice concerns about profit-driven, class-restrictive medicine where 'the diseased are just another market, and propose some provocative solutions for a flawed medical system.