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The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's position and, likewise, may or may not be consistent with a biblical worldview. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.

• Bellomo, Michael. The Stem Cell Divide: The Facts, the Fiction, and the Fear Driving the Greatest Scientific, Political, and Religious Debate of Our Time. New York: AMACOM, 2006.
• Bevington, Linda K., Ray G. Bohlin, Gary P. Stewart, John F. Kilner, and C. Christopher Hook. Basic Questions on Genetics, Stem Cell Research and Cloning: Are These Technologies Okay to Use? Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2002.
• Black, Laura. The Stem Cell Debate: The Ethics and Science behind the Research. Berkeley Heights, NJ:Enslow, 2006.
• Cameron, Nigel M. de S., ed. Embryos and Ethics: The Warnock Report in Debate. Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 1987.
• Carrier, Ewa, and Gracy Ledingham. 100 Questions & Answers about Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2004.
• Cohen, Cynthia B. Renewing the Stuff of Life: Stem Cells, Ethics, and Public Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• DeGette, Diana. Sex, Science, and Stem Cells. Guilford, CT: Lyons, 2008.
• Fox, Cynthia. Cell of Cells: The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.
• Green, Ronald M. The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Gruen, Lori, Laura Grabel, and Peter Singer, eds. Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
• Herold, Eve, and George Daley. Stem Cell Wars: Inside Stories from the Frontlines. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Holland, Suzanne, Karen Lebacqz, and Laurie Zoloth, eds. The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
• Humber, James M., and Robert F. Almeder. Stem Cell Research. Totowa, NJ: Humana, 2004.
• Juengst, Eric, and Michael Fossel. “The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cells: Now and Forever, Cells Without End.” JAMA 284 (2000): 3180-3184.
• Kass, Leon R. Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics. San Francisco: Encounter, 2002.
• Korobkin, Russell, and Stephen R. Munzer. Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
• Lanza, Robert, Roger Pedersen, Douglas Melton, John Gaerhart, E. Donnall Thomas, James A. Thomson, and Brigid Hogan, eds. Essentials of Stem Cell Biology. Burlington, MA: Academic, 2005.
• Marzilli, Alan. Stem Cell Research and Cloning. New York: Chelsea House, 2007.
• Monroe, Kristen Renwick, Ronald Miller, and Jerome Tobis, eds. Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate: The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
• Mulkay, Michael. The Embryo Research Debate: Science and the Politics of Reproduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.   
• National Bioethics Advisory Commission. Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. Vol. 1 of Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research. Rockville, MD: NBAC, 1999. http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nbac/stemcell.pdf (Accessed April 21, 2009). 
• __________. Commissioned Papers. Vol. 2 of Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research. Rockville, MD: NBAC, 2000. http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nbac/stemcell2.pdf (Accessed April 21, 2009).
• __________. Religious Perspectives. Vol. 3 of Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research. Rockville, MD: NBAC, 2000. http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nbac/stemcell3.pdf (Accessed April 21, 2009).
• Østnor, Lars, ed. Stem Cells, Human Embryos and Ethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Springer, 2008.
• Panno, Joseph. Stem Cell Research: Medical Applications and Ethical Controversy. New York: Checkmark, 2006.
• Peters, Ted. The Stem Cell Debate. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.
• Potten, Christopher S., Robert B. Clarke, James Wilson, and Andrew G. Renehen, eds. Tissue Stem Cells. New York: Informa Healthcare, 2006.
• Prentice, David A. Stem Cells and Cloning. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2003.
• The President's Council on Bioethics. Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics. New York: PublicAffairs, 2002. http://www.bioethics.gov/reports/cloningreport/pcbe_cloning_report.pdf (accessed April 21, 2009).
• Robertson, John A. “Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Ethical and Legal Issues.” Nature Reviews Genetics 2 (2002): 74-78.
• Ruse, Michael, and Christopher A. Pynes, eds. The Stem Cell Controversy: Debating the Issues. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2003.
• Shostak, Stanley. Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-cell Therapy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 
• Snow, Nancy E., ed. Stem Cell Research: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003.
• Waters, Brent, and Ronald Cole-Turner, eds. God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003.
• Wertz, Dorothy C. “Embryo and Stem Cell Research in the USA: A Political History.” Trends in Molecular Medicine 8 (2002): 143-146.

Additional Key Reports on Stem Cell Research

• Chapman, Audrey R., Mark S. Frankel, and Michele S. Garfinkel. “Stem Cell Research and Applications: Monitoring the Frontiers of Biomedical Research.” AAAS / ICS, November 1999. http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/projects/stem/report.pdf (Accessed April 24, 2009).
   
• Committee on the Biological and Biomedical Applications of Stem Cell Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, Institute of Medicine. Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academies, 2002. Available online at www.nap.edu/books/0309076307/html/ (Accessed April 24, 2009).
   
• National Academies. Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) and Board on Life Sciences (BLS). Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning. Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy; National Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Engineering; Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academy, 2002. Available online at http://www.nap.edu/books/0309076374/html/ (Accessed April 24, 2009).

Updated April 2009