Omni Book of Medicine

ICE BORN<br >HWAYS<br >~RESS<br >293<br >319<br >337 I FOREWORD<br >elman-Turkel 355<br >ETHICS<br >367<br >385<br >.393<br >409<br >417<br > In the world of science， few disciplines are as<br >fast-moving as biomedical research. Few are as<br >able to touch our lives. Few are as heavily publi-<br >cized. And yet few are less well known.<br > Each morning in thq newspaper， each night on<br >television， we hear of Uiscovery. New drugs and<br >vaccines， new insights:~to the workings of life<br >have appeared almost rotatinely since James Wat-<br >son and Francis Crick worked out the structure of<br >DNA some thirty years ago. Yet what we read<br >and hear is just the surface， results arrived at by<br >years of patient research that television hasn t the<br >time to explain.<br > For every headline， hundreds of experiments<br >go unnoticed except by the few scientists whose<br >work they advance. It is among these little-<br >known studies that we can find the future.<br >Searching it out is the special role of Omni maga-<br >zine.<br > When Omni first appeared， in October 1978， it<br >set a new standard for science journalism. Omni<br >writers understood both science and scientists.<br >They could report a finding as well as the best<br ><br >