Matters of Life and Death

John Cairns

Princeton University Press, £12.95, pp 260

ISBN 0 691 00250 9

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The biomedical community has only recently recognised the importance of its educational duties towards the lay public: biologists and clinicians know that didactic information provided to the general population impacts directly on research activities and helps implement their clinical applications. Therefore, attempts to promote wider understanding of science should be regarded as public spirited acts. However, popularisation …