Genetic Ethics 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 B. Future Perfect. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
- _________, Maxwell J. Mehlman, and Mark A. Rothstein. Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy. 2nd ed. St. Paul, MN: West Law School, 2006.
- Annas, George J., and Sherman Elias, eds. Gene Mapping: Using Laws and Ethics as Guides. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Baily, Mary Ann and Thomas H. Murray, eds. Ethics and Newborn Genetic Screening: New Technologies, New Challenges. Baltimore, MA: John Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Barash, Carol Isaacson. Just Genes: The Ethics of Genetic Technologies. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.
- Berry, Roberta. The Ethics of Genetic Engineering. New York: Routledge, 2007.
- Boylan, Michael, and Kevin Brown. Genetic Engineering: Science and Ethics on the New Frontier. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
- Buchanan, Allen, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler. From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Bunton, Robin and Alan Petersen, eds. Genetic Governance: Health, Risk and Ethics in a Biotech Era. New York: Routledge, 2005.
- Burley, Justine, ed. The Genetic Revolution and Human Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Burley, Justine, and John Harris, eds. A Companion to Genethics: Philosophy and the Genetic Revolution. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
- Cahill, Lisa Sowle. Genetics, Theology, and Society: An Interdisciplinary Conversation. New York: Crossroad, 2005.***
- Condit, Celeste Michelle. The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.
- Corrigan, Oonagh. Genetic Databases: Socio-Ethical Issues in the Collection and Use of DNA. New York: Routledge, 2004.
- Davis, Dena S. Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children’s Futures. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Deane-Drummond, Celia. Genetics and Christian Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.***
- Duster, Troy. Backdoor to Eugenics. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2003.
- Gehring, Verna V., ed. Genetic Prospects: Essays on Biotechnology, Ethics, and Public Policy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
- Glover, Jonathan. Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Green, Ronald M. Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
- Harris, John. Clones, Genes, and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetic Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Hashiloni-Dolev, Yael. A Life (Un)worthy of Living: Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2007.
- Häyry, Matti. Rationality and the Genetic Challenge: Making People Better? New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Hubbard, Ruth, and Elijah Wald. Exploding the Gene Myth. Boston: Beacon, 1999.
- Keller, Evelyn Fox. The Century of the Gene. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Kevles, Daniel. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. New York: Harvard University Press, 1995.
- Kilner, John F., Rebecca D. Pentz, and Frank E. Young, eds. Genetic Ethics: Do the Ends Justify the Genes? Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1997.***
- Knowles, Lori P. and Gregory K. Kaebnick, eds. Reprogenetics: Law, Policy and Ethical Issues. Baltimore, MA: John Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Laurie, Graeme. Genetic Privacy: A Challenge to Medico-legal Norms. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Lee, Kee kok. Philosophy and Revolutions in Genetics: Deep Science and Deep Technology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Miah, Andy. Genetically Modified Athletes: Biomedical Ethics, Gene Doping and Sport. London: Routledge, 2004.
- Monsour, Daniel, ed. Ethics and the New Genetics: An Integrated Approach. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
- Nelkin, Dorothy, and M. Susan Lindee. The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
- Palmer, Julie Gage, and LeRoy Walters. The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Parens, Erik, Audrey R. Chapman, and Nancy Press, eds. Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Conversation. Baltimore, MA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Parker, L.S., and Rachel A. Ankeny, eds. Mutating Concepts, Evolving Disciplines: Genetics, Medicine, and Society. Norwell, MA: Springer, 2002.
- Pernick, Martin S. The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of “Defective” Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Peters, Ted. Playing God: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1997.
- Peterson, James C. Genetic Turning Points: The Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001.***
- Rasko, John, Gabrielle O'Sullivan, and Rachel Ankeny, eds. The Ethics of Inheritable Genetic Modification: A Dividing Line? New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Rothman, Barbara Katz. Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
- Rothstein, Mark A., ed. Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
- Sandel, Michael J. The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2007.
- Schneider, Angela J., and Theodore Friedmann, eds. Gene Doping in Sports: The Science and Ethics of Genetically Modified Athletes. San Diego: Academic, 2006.
- Shannon, Thomas A., ed. Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy: Readings in Bioethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
- Sharpe, Neil F., and Ronald F. Carter. Genetic Testing: Care, Consent and Liability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
- Skene, Loane and Janna Thompson, eds. The Sorting Society: The Ethics of Genetic Screening and Therapy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Song, Robert. Human Genetics: Fabricating the Future. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 2002.
- Stober, Spencer C. and Donna Yarri. God, Science, and Designer Genes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009.***
- Stock, Gregory. Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
- Stock, Gregory, and John Campbell, eds. Engineering the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We Pass to Our Children. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Weir, Robert F., Robert S. Olick, and Jeffrey C. Murray. The Stored Tissue Issue: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Law in the Era of Genomic Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Wertz, Dorothy C., and John C. Fletcher. Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2004.
- Willer, Roger A., ed. Genetic Testing and Screening: Critical Engagement at the Intersection of Faith and Science. Minneapolis: Kirk House, 1998.
- Widdows, Heather and Caroline Mullen, eds. The Governance of Genetic Information: Who Decides? New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Out of Print
- Dann, Jack, and Gardner R. Dozois, eds. Clones: Nine Tales of Genetic Engineering and Its Impact on Tomorrow. New York: Ace, 1997.
- Murphy, Timothy, and Marc A. Lappe, eds. Justice and the Human Genome Project. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
- Nelson, J. Robert. On the New Frontiers of Genetics and Religion. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.
- Peters, Ted. Genetics: Issues of Social Justice. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 1998.
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Updated March 2010






