Biotechnology Bibliography

 

The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's positions or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.

  • Andrews, Lori, and Dorothy Nelkin. Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age. New York: Crown, 2001.
  • Bailey, Ronald. Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2005.
  • Bains, William. Biotechnology: From A to Z. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Bauer, M.W., and G. Gaskell, eds. Biotechnology: The Making of a Global Controversy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Borém, Aluízio, Fabrício R. Santos, and David E. Bowen. Understanding Biotechnology.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2003.
  • Briggle, Adam, ed. A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
  • Brodwin, Paul, ed. Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
  • Brooks, Rodney A. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us. New York: Pantheon, 2002.
  • Bryan, Jenny, and John Clare. Organ Farm: Pig to Human Transplants—Medical Miracle or Genetic Time Bomb? London: Carlton, 2001.
  • Chadwick, Ruth, ed. The Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies. San Diego: Academic, 2001.
  • Collins, Steven. The Race to Commercialize Biotechnology: Molecules, Market and the State in Japan and the US. New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Colson, Charles W., and Nigel M. De S. Cameron. Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy. Downers Grove: IVP, 2004.
  • Cox, Earl D., and George S. Paul. Beyond Humanity: Cyber Evolution and Future Minds. Roackland, MA: Charles River Media, 1996.
  • Cregan, Kate. “On the Frontier of the Bio-tech Boom. Arena Magazine, August 1, 2001.
  • Dhanda, Rahul K. Guiding Icarus: Merging Bioethics with Corporate Interests. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
  • Finegold, David L., Cecile M. Bensimon, Abdallah S. Daar, Margaret L. Eaton, Beatrice Godard, Bartha Maria Knoppers, Jocelyn Mackie, and Peter A. Singer. BioIndustry Ethics. San Diego: Academic, 2005.
  • Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
  • Fumento, Michael. Bioevolution: How Biotechnology is Changing Our World.San Francisco: Encounter, 2003.
  • Gehring, Verna V., ed. Genetic Prospects: Essays on Biotechnology, Ethics, and Public Policy.Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
  • Hanson, Mark J. Claiming Power over Life: Religion and Biotechnology Policy. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001.
  • Harris, John. Wonderwoman and Superman: The Ethics of Human Biotechnology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Hauskeller, Michael. Biotechnology and the Integrity of Life. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.
  • Kilner, John F., C. Christopher Hook, and Diann B. Uustal. Cutting-Edge Bioethics: A Christian Exploration of Technologies and Trends. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
  • Kurzweil, Ray. The Age of Spiritual Machines. New York: Penguin, 1999.
  • Lee, Shui Chuen. The Family, Medical Decision-making, and Biotechnology: Critical Reflections on Asian Moral Perspectives. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2007.
  • Mitchell, C. Ben, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John F. Kilner, and Scott B. Rae.  Biotechnology and the Human Good. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007.
  • Moravec, Hans. Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Morrey, John D. Ethical Issues in Biotechnology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
  • Morris, Jonathan. Ethics and Biotechnology. New York: Chelsea House, 2005.
  • Nwabueze, Remigius N. Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.
  • Oliver, Richard W. The Coming Biotech Age. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
  • O'Mahony, Patrick, ed. Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology. New York: Routledge, 1999.
  • Parens, Erik, ed. Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998.
  • Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. New York: Vintage, 1992.
  • President's Council on Bioethics. Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
  • Read, Catherine Y., Robert C. Green, and Michael A. Smyer, eds. Aging, Biotechnology, and the Future. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
  • Reuter, Lars. Modern Biotechnology in Postmodern Times? A Reflection on European Policies and Human Agency. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2003.
  • Rifkin, Jeremy. The Biotech Century. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1998.
  • Roco, Mihail C., and William S. Bainbridge. Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2003.
  • __________. Nanotechnology: Societal Implications. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2006.
  • Rollin, Bernard E. Science and Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Schaller, Barry R. Understanding Bioethics and the Law: The Promises and Perils of the Brave New World of Biotechnology. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008.
  • Smith, George P., II. The Christian Religion and Biotechnology: A Search for Principled Decision-making. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2005.
  • Thiele, Felix, and R.E. Ashcroft, eds. Bioethics in a Small World. Berlin: Springer, 2004.
  • Thompson, Paul B. Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer 2007.
  • Vallero, Daniel. Biomedical Ethics for Engineers: Ethics and Decision Making in Biomedical and Biosystem Engineering. San Diego: Academic, 2007. 

 

Updated June 2010