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.
• Farmer, Ann. By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2008.
• Glad, John. Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-first Century. Schuylkill Haven, PA: Hermitage, 2006.
• Lombardo, Paul A. A Century of Eugenics in America from the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.
• 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)

• 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.
• 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.
• Harris, John. Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, U.K.: 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.

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.
• 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.

Transhumanism

• Alexander, Brian. Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
• Cole-Turner, Ronald, ed. Transhumanism and Transcendence: Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Enhancement. Washington, D.C.: 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.
• Geraci, Robert. Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• 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.

Posthumanism

• Fukuyama, Francis.  Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Picador, 2002.
• Gray, Chis 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.
• 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. Inhuman Thoughts: Philosophical Explorations of Posthumanity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.
• Waters, Brent. From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

Updated December 2011