Human Enhancement 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.

Eugenics

  • Bashford, Alison, and Philippa Levine. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • Black, Edwin. War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003.
  • Chesterton, G. K. Eugenics and Other Evils. London: Catholic Way Publishing, 2012.
  • Farmer, Ann. By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2008.
  • Glad, John. Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-first Century. Schuylkill Haven, PA: Hermitage, 2006.
  • Kevles, Daniel. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
  • Lombardo, Paul. A Century of Eugenics in America from the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.
  • Lombardo, Paul. Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
  • McGee, Glenn. Perfect Baby: Parenthood in the New World of Cloning and Genetics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
  • Rosen, Christine.  Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 
  • Rothschild, Joan. The Dream of the Perfect Child. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 
  • Tankard Reist, Melinda. Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics. North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press, 2006.

Human enhancement (General)

  • Agar, Nicholas. Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.
  • Agar, Nicholas. Liberal Eugenics: In Defense of Human Enhancement. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
  • Andrews, Lori B. Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions about Genetics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
  • Baillie, Harold W., and Timothy K. Casey, eds. Is Human Nature Obsolete? Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
  • Benford, Gregory, and Elizabeth Malartre.  Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2007.
  • Buchanan, Allen E. Better Than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Buchanan, Allen E. Beyond Humanity? The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Cole-Turner, Ronald, ed. Beyond Cloning: Religion and the Remaking of Humanity. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2001.
  • Elliot, Carl. Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream.  New York: Norton, 2004.
  • Fröding, Barbro. Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement. New York: Springer, 2013.
  • Garreau, Joel. Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing our Minds, Our Bodies—and What It Means to Be Human. New York: Broadway, 2006.
  • Harris, John. Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
  • Hauskeller, M. Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project. Durham, UK: Acumen Pub. Ltd., 2013.
  • Magnus, David, Arthur Caplan, and Glenn McGee, eds. Who Owns Life? Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2002.
  • Mehlman, Maxwell J. The Price of Perfection: Individualism and Society in the Era of Biomedical Enhancement. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
  • Moore, Peter. Enhancing Me: The Hope and the Hype of Human Enhancement. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2008.
  • Naam, Ramez. More than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement. New York: Broadway Books, 2005.
  • Parens, Erik, ed. Enhancing Human Traits. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998.
  • Parens, Erik, ed. Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
  • Pence, Gregory E. How to Build a Better Human: An Ethical Blueprint. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.
  • President's Council on Bioethics. Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness. http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe/reports/beyondtherapy/index.html, 2003.
  • Rothman, Sheila, and David Rothman. The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.
  • Savulescu, Julian, R. H. J. ter Meulen, and Guy Kahane. Enhancing Human Capacities. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
  • Savulescu, Julian, and Nick Bostrom, eds. Human Enhancement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 
  • Shuldrick, Margrit, and Roxanne Mykitiuk, eds. Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
  • Tolleneer, Jan, Sigrid Sterckx, and Pieter Bonte, eds. Athletic Enhancement, Human Nature and Ethics: Threats and Opportunities of Doping Technologies. New York: Springer, 2012.

Immortality Research 

  • Bova, Ben. Immortality—How Science is Extending Your Life Span—and Changing the World. New York: Harper Perennial, 2000. 
  • Deech, Ruth and Anna Smajdor. From IVF to Immortality: Controversy in the Era of Reproductive Technology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 
  • deGrey, Aubrey, and Michael Rae. Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation that Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007. 
  • Hall, Stephen S. Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
  • Lo, Vivienne, ed. Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine, and Immortality Ancient and Modern. Lond: British Museum Press, 2012.
  • Olshansky, Stuart Jay, and Bruce A. Carnes. The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging. New York: Norton, 2001.
  • Shostak, Stanley. Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem Cell Therapy. New York: SUNY Press, 2002.

Posthumanism

  • Cecchetto, David. Humanesis: Sound and Technological Posthumanism. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
  • Fukuyama, Francis.  Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Picador, 2002.
  • Gray, Chris Hables.  Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age. New York: Routledge, 2001.
  • Gordijn, Bert, and Ruth F. Chadwick. Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009.
  • Halberstam, Judith and Ira Livingston, eds. Posthuman Bodies. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995.
  • Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 
  • Hyde, Michael J. Perfection: Coming to Terms with Being Human. Notre Dame, IN: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
  • Kass, Leon. Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics. New York: Encounter Books, 2004.
  • King-Tak, Ip. Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine. New York: Springer, 2009.
  • Merrell, Floyd.  Sensing Corporeally: Toward a Posthuman Understanding. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
  • Miccoli, Anthony. Posthuman Suffering and the Technological Embrace. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.
  • Pepperell, Robert. The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness beyond the Brain.  Portland, OR: Intellect, 2009.
  • Scott, Peter M. Anti-Human Theology: Nature, Technology and the Post-Natural. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
  • Seidel, Asher. Immortal Passage: Philosophical Speculations on Posthuman Evolution. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.
  • Seidel, Asher. Inhuman Thoughts: Philosophical Explorations of Posthumanity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.
  • Stefan, Herbrechter. Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis. New York: Continuum, 2013.
  • Thweatt-Bates, Jeanine. A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012.
  • Waters, Brent. From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.
  • Wolfe, Cary. What Is Posthumanism? Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Transhumanism

  • Alexander, Brian. Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
  • Allenby, Braden R. and Daniel Sarewitz. The Techno-Human Condition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
  • Cole-Turner, Ronald, ed. Transhumanism and Transcendence: Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Enhancement. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011.
  • Deane-Drummond, Celia and Peter Manley Scott, eds. Future Perfect? God, Medicine, and Human Identity. New York: T & T Clark, 2006.
  • Dewdney, Christopher. Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
  • Fuller, Steve. Humanity 2.0: What It Means to Be Human Past, Present, and Future. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
  • Geraci, Robert. Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • Hansell, Gregory R. and William Grassie, eds. H +/-: Transhumanism and its Critics. San Francisco, CA: Metanexus Institute, 2011.
  • Kurzweil, Ray. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. New York: Penguin Group, 2005.
  • Mehlman, Maxwell J. Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares: The Promise and Peril of Genetic Engineering. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
  • Molloy, Claire and Steven Shakespeare. Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhumanism. New York: Continuum, 2012.
  • Paul, Gregory S., and Earl D. Cox. Beyond Humanity: Cyberevolution and Future Minds. Rockland, MA: Charles River Media, 1996.
  • Ramachandra, Vinoth. Subverting Global Myths: Theology and the Public Issues Shaping Our World. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2008.

 

For additional related material see the Emerging Technology and Genetic Ethics Bibliographies

Updated December 2012