Rick Carlson

Health-care consultant Carlson (The End of Medicine) and writerStimeling (coauthor of The Body Electric) offer an assessment ofbiotechnology's promise and peril, with emphasis on the peril.Insisting that not enough attention is paid to biotechnology'spotential 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.