What scientists think / [edited by] Jeremy Stangroom.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

xiii, 194 pages ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-186) and index.

Introduction -- The interviews -- Darwinism and genes / Steve Jones -- Evolutionary psychology and the blank slate / Steven Pinker -- The human brain and consciousness / Susan Greenfield -- Science and the human animal / Kenan Malik -- Cybernetics and a post-human future / Kevin Warwick -- Psychiatry and schizophrenia / Robin Murray -- Microbiology, viruses and their threats / Dorothy Crawford -- On cancer research / Mike Stratton -- Animal experimentation, ethics and medical research / Colin Blakemore -- Science under threat / Norman Levitt -- Biodiversity / Edward O. Wilson -- Science: its dangers and its public / Martin Rees -- Further reading.