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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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. 

 
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