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.

Artificial Life

• Forbes, Nancy. Imitation of Life: How Biology is Inspiring Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 
• Helmreich, Stefan. Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2000.
• Levy, Steven. Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
• Moravec, Hans P. Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
• Moravec, Hans P. Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Kirkup, Gill, Linda Janes, Kathryn Woodward, and Fiona Hovenden, eds. The Gendered Cyborg. New York: Routledge, 1999.
• Warwik, Kevin.  I, Cyborg. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 

Emerging Technologies (General)

• Einsiedel, Edna F. Emerging Technologies: From Hindsight to Foresight. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009.
• Kilner, John F., C. Christopher Hook, and Diann B. Uustal. Cutting-Edge Bioethics: A Christian Exploration of Technologies and Trends. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
• Stober, Spencer S, and Donna Yari. God, Science, and Designer Genes: An Exploration of Emerging Genetic Technologies. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2009.

 Genetic Engineering & Gene Therapy

See the Genetic Ethics Bibliography for more information. 

 Nanotechnology

• Allhoff, Fritz, Patrick Lin, James Moor, and John Weckert, eds. Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007.
• Allhoff, Fritz, Patrick Lin and Daniel Moore. What Is Nanotechnology and Why Does It Matter? From Science to Ethics. New York: Blackwell, 2010.
• Baird, Davis, Alfred Nordmann, and Joachim Schummer, eds. Discovering the Nanoscale. Fairfax, VA: IOS Press, 2004.
• Foster, Lynn E. Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and Opportunity. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2009.
• Hunt, Geoffrey and Michael Mehta, eds. Nanotechnology: Risk, Ethics, and Law. London: Earthscan, 2008.
• Jotterand, Fabrice, ed. Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology. New York: Springer, 2010.
• Kaiser, Mario, Monika Kurath, Sabine Maasen, and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, eds. Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime.  Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2010.
• Khan, Ahmed S. Nanotechnology: Ethical and Social Implications. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis Group, 2012.
• Langwith, Jacqueline, ed. Nanotechnology. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010.
• Mulhall, Douglas. Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2002.
• O’Mathúna, Dónal.  Nanoethics: Big Ethical Issues with Small Technology. New York: Continuum, 2009.
• Roco, Mihail C. and William Sims Bainbridge, eds. Nanotechnology: Societal Implications I. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2006.
• Roco, Mihail C. and William Sims Bainbridge, eds. Nanotechnology: Societal Implications II: Individual Perspectives. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2007.
• Roco, Mihail C. and William Sims Bainbridge, eds. Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2010.
• Schummer, Joachim and Davis Baird. Nanotechnology Challenges: Implications for Philosophy, Ethics and Society. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2006.
• Wilson, Mick, Kamali Kannangara, Geoff Smith, Michelle Simmons, and Burkhard Raquse. Nanotechnology: Basic Science and Emerging Technologies. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall, 2002.
   

Synthetic Biology

See the Biotechnology Bibliography for more information. 

Updated June 2011