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The story of prions is exceptionally well told in Rosalind Ridley and Harry Baker's Fatal protein (Oxford University Press, 1998). I have also drawn on Richard Rhodes's Deadly feasts (Simon and Schuster, 1997) and Robert Klitzman's The trembling mountain (Plenum, 1998).

1. Prusiner, S. B. and Scott, M. R. (1997). Genetics of prions. Annual Review of Genetics 31: 139—75.

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2. Brown, D. R. et al. (1997). The cellular prion protein binds copper in vivo.

Nature 390: 684—7.

3. Prusiner, S. B., Scott, M. R., DeArmand, S. J. and Cohen, F. E. (1998).

Prion protein biology. Cell 93: 337—49.

4. Klein, M. A. et al. (1997). A crucial role for B cells in neuroinvasive scrapie. Nature 390: 687—90.

5. Ridley, R. M. and Baker H. F. (1998). Fatal protein. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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The most thorough history of the eugenics movement, Dan Kevles's In the name of eugenics (Harvard University Press, 1985) concentrates mostly on America. For the European scene, John Carey's The intellectuals and the masses (Faber and Faber, 1992) is eye-opening.

1. Hawkins, M. (1997). Social Darwinism in European and American thought.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

2. Kevles, D. (1985). In the name of eugenics. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

3. Paul, D. B. and Spencer, H. G. (1995). The hidden science of eugenics.

Nature 374: 302-5.

4. Carey, J. (1992). The intellectuals and the masses. Faber and Faber, London.

5. Anderson, G. (1994). The politics of the mental deficiency act. M.Phil, dissertation, University of Cambridge.

6. Hansard, 29 May 1913.

7. Wells, H. G., Huxley, J. S. and Wells, G. P. (1931). The science of life.

Cassell, London.

8. Kealey, T., personal communication; Lindzen, R. (1996). Science and politics: global warming and eugenics. In Hahn, R. W. (ed.), Risks, costs and lives saved, pp. 85 — 103. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

9. King, D. and Hansen, R. (1999). Experts at work: state autonomy, social learning and eugenic sterilisation in 1930s Britain. British Journal of Political Science 29: 77— 107.

10. Searle, G. R. (1979). Eugenics and politics in Britain in the 1930s. Annals of Political Science 36: 159—69.

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11. Kitcher, P. (1996). The lives to come. Simon and Schuster, New York.

12. Quoted in an interview in the Sunday Telegraph, 8 February 1997.

13. Lynn, R. (1996). Dysgenics: genetic deterioration in modern populations. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.

14. Reported in HMS Beagle: The Biomednet Magazine (www.biomednet.com/

hmsbeagle), issue 20, November 1997.

15. Morton, N. (1998). Hippocratic or hypocritic: birthpangs of an ethical code. Nature Genetics 18: 18; Coghlan, A. (1998). Perfect people's republic.

New Scientist, 24 October 1998, p. 24.

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The most intelligent book on determinism is Judith Rich Harris's The nurture assumption (Bloomsbury, 1998). Steven Rose's Lifelines (Penguin, 1998) makes the opposing case. Dorothy Nelkin and Susan Lindee's The DNA mystique (Freeman, 1995) is worth a look.

1. Rich Harris, J. (1998). The nurture assumption. Bloomsbury, London.

2. Ehrenreich, B. and McIntosh, J. (1997). The new creationism. Nation, 9

June 1997.

3. Rose, S., Kamin, L. J. and Lewontin, R. C. (1984). Not in our genes.