A gathering of essays answering fundamental questions about the changes in science, by one of its keenest observers.

Barbara Koenig, Ph.D., is a Medical Anthropologist who studies contemporary biomedicine, particularly the introduction of newtechnologies. For ten years she served as Executive Director of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics. Currently, she is a Fellow at Stanford's Humanities Center, working on a book exploringthe role of bioethics in recent efforts to improve end-of-life carein the United States.