Introduction to the supplement to this Special Issue on C. P. Snowʹs “Two Cultures”: A case of morality, organ transplants, and a third culture

This brief insert at this point in this issue is intended to make clear that it has been, in the papers preceding this one, a Special Issue prepared by our Guest Editors. Participants in a Weill Cornell Medical College seminar series addressed C.P. Snowʹs famous contrast between the culture of scientists and engineers and that of literary intellectuals. In the article that follows this comment we add an independently prepared case study of the Dutch debate on organ transplants. This history provides another good example of the real-world complexity of the interaction of medical technology and medical ethics with public opinion and the political process.