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 March
1999
This list was
compiled by Karen J. Watkins, Science and Technology Studies (STS)
program at Virginia Tech, with additional suggestions provided by
Kirsten Worley, Jane Lehr, and Mary Ellen Jones.
General
Scientific Issues
Anderson, W.
French, "Gene Therapy." Scientific American (September
1995), 124-128.
Bowman, James E. and Robert F. Murray Jr., Genetic Variation
and Disorders in Peoples of African Origin (Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1998).
Davis, J., Mapping the Code: The Human Genome Project and the
Choices of Modern Science (New York: John Wiley, 1990).
Holtzman, N.A. and M.S. Watson, eds., Promoting Safe and Effective
Genetic Testing in the United States. Final Report of the Task
Force on Genetic Testing. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1998).
Plomin, Robert, Michael J. Owen, and Peter McGuffin. "The Genetic
Basis of Complex Behaviors.", Science 264: 1736 (1994).
Time Magazine Special Issue, "The Future of Medicine",
January 11, 1999, Vol. 153, No. 1; also at cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/toc/0,3392,1101990111,00.html
Zallen, Doris T., "Chapter 2: Basics of Genetics and Genetic
Testing" in Does It Run in the Family? A Consumer's Guide
to DNA Testing for Genetic Disorders (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 1997).
Cold Spring Harbor (NY) on-line DNA Learning Center at http://vector.cshl.org/
Ethical,
Social and Religious Issues
American Society
of Human Genetics/American College of Medical Genetics Report, "Points
to Consider: Ethical, Legal, and Psychological Implications of Genetic
Testing in Children and Adolescents", American Journal of
Human Genetics 57: 1233-1241 (1995).
Appleyard, Bryan. Brave New Worlds: Staying Human in the Genetic
Future (Viking Press, 1998.)
Billings, Paul R., Jonathan Beckwith, and Joseph Alper, "The
Genetic Analysis of Human Behavior: A New Era?, Social Science
and Medicine 35: 227-238 (1992).
Cranor, Carl F., ed., Are Genes Us? The Social Consequences of
the New Genetics (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
1994).
Gardner, William, "Can Human Genetic Enhancement be Prohibited?",
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 20: 65-84 (1995).
Glover, Jonathan. What Sort of People Should There Be? (New
York: Penguin Books, 1992).
Hubbard, Ruth and Elijah Wald. Exploding the Gene Myth (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1997).
Juengst, Eric T. and LeRoy Walters. "Gene Therapy: II. Ethical
and Social Issues," in Warren T. Reich, ed., Encyclopedia
of Bioethics (revised ed.; 5 vols.; New York: Simon & Schuster
Macmillan, 1995), II, 914-922.
Kevles, Daniel J. and Leroy Hood, eds., The Code of Codes: Scientific
and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project. (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1992).
Kimbrell, Andrew, The Human Body Shop: The Cloning, Engineering,
and Marketing of Life (Regnery Publishing, Inc, 1998).
Lantos, John, "Ethical Issues in Growth Hormone Therapy",
Journal of the American Medical Association 261: 1020-1024
(1989).
Lomax, Elizabeth M.R., Jerome Kagan, and Barbara G. Rosenkrantz,
Science and Patterns of Child Care (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman,
1978)
McGee, Glenn, The Perfect Baby (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
Publishers, 1997).
Murray, Thomas H., The Worth of a Child (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1996)
Murray, Thomas H., Mark A. Rothstein, and Robert F. Murray Jr.,
eds., The Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care
(Medical Ethics Series). (Indiana University Press, 1996).
Nelson, J. Robert. On the New Frontiers of Genetics and Religion
(Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994).
Parens, Erik, ed., Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social
Implications (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press,
1998)
Parens, Erik, "Is Better Always Good? The Enhancement Project"
(A Special Supplement to the Hastings Center Report, 28:
S1-S18, January- February 1998)
Rifkin, Jeremy. The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and
Remaking the World (J.P. Archer: May 1998).
Sears, R.R., "Your Ancients Revisited: A History of Child Development",
in E. M. Hetherington, ed., Review of Child Development Research,
volume 5 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975)
Singer, Peter and Deane Wells, "Genetic Engineering",
in Erwin Edward, Sideny Gendin, and Lowell Kleiman, eds., Ethical
Issues in Scientific Research: An Anthology (New York: Garland
Publishing Co, 1994).
Walters, LeRoy and Julie Gage Palmer, The Ethics of Human Gene
Therapy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Weiss, Michael J. Improving Nature? The Science and Ethics of
Genetic Engineering (Cambridge Univ Press, 1996).
Wivel, Nelson A. and LeRoy Walters. "Germ-Line Gene Modification
and Disease Prevention: Some Medical and Ethical Perspectives."
Science 262: 533-538 (1993).
History:
The Nature/Nurture Debate and the Eugenics Movement
Baumrind, D.
"The average expectable environment is not good enough."
Child Development, 1993, 64, 1299-1317.
Duster, Troy, Backdoor to Eugenics (New York: Routledge,
1990).
Gallagher, Winifred. Just the Way You Are: How Heredity and Experience
Create the Individual (Random House, 1997)
Lewontin, R.C., Stephen Rose, and Leon J. Kamin, Not in Our Genes:
Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature (New York: Pantheon, 1984).
Paul, Diane B. Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present
(Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Prometheus Books, 1995).
Paul, Diane. The Politics of Heredity : Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine,
and the Nature-Nurture Debate (SUNY Series, Philosophy and Biology)
(State Univ of New York Press, 1998)
Rothman, Barbara Katz. Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The
Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are (New York/London:
W.W. Norton & Co., 1998).
Rutter, M. et al.. "Integrating nature and nurture: Implications
of person-environment correlations and interactions for developmental
psychopathology." Development and Psychopathology, 1997,
9 (2), 225-364.
Skodak, M. & Skeels, H. "A final follow-up study of 100
adopted children." Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1949,
75, 85-125.
Steen, R. Grant. DNA and Destiny : Nature and Nurture in Human
Behavior (Plenum Press, 1996).
Sternberg, Robert J., and Elena Grigorenko. Intelligence, Heredity,
and Environment (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Thomas, A. & Chess, S. Temperament and Development. New
York: Brunner/Mazel, 1977.
Public
Policy Issues
Ad Hoc Committee
on Genetic Testing/Insurance Issues, "Background Statement:
Genetic Testing and Insurance." American Journal of Human
Genetics 56: 327-331 (1995).
Aldhous, P. "Who Needs a Genome Ethics Treaty?" Nature
351: 507 (1991).
Andrews, Lori B., Jane E. Fullarton, Neil A. Holtzman, and Arno
G. Motulsky, eds. Assessing Genetic Risks: Implications for Health
and Social Policy (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press,
1994).
Annas, George J. and Sherman Elias, eds., Gene Mapping: Using
Law and Ethics as Guides (New York: Oxford University Press,
1992).
Cohen, Sherrill and Nadine Taub, eds. Reproductive Laws for the
1990s (Clifton, NJ: Human Press, 1989).
Gardner, William, "Can Human Genetic Enhancement Be Prohibited?
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 20: 65-84 (1995)
Silvers, Anita, David Wasserman, and Mary Briody Mahowald. Disability,
Difference, Discrimination : Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics
and Public Policy (Point/ Counterpoint) (Rowman & Littlefield,
1998).
Walters, LeRoy. "Human Gene Therapy: Ethics and Public Policy,"
Human Gene Therapy 2: 115-122.(1991).
Weiss, R. "Predisposition and Prejudice: As Scientists Crack
the Code of Inherited Imbalances, Policy Makers Confront the Specter
of Genetic Discrimination", Science News 135: 40-42
(1989)
The Policy News and Information Service website at:
http://www.policy.com/issuewk/1998/1130_45/detail150.html
The
Feminist Perspective
Balsamo, Anne,
"On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technical Production
of the Gendered Body", Camera Obscura 28: 206-237 (1992)
Bordo, Susan, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and
the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)
David, Kathy. Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic
Surgery (New York: Routledge, 1995)
Gilman, Sander L. Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History
of Aesthetic Surgery (University of California Press, June 1999).
Hausman, Bernice. Chapter 2, "Plastic Ideologies and Plastic
Transformations", pp. 49-71 in Changing Sex: Transsexualism,
Technology, and the Idea of Gender (Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 1995).
Hubbard, Ruth, The Politics of Women's Biology (New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990).
Jacobus, Mary, Evelyn Fox Keller, and Sally Shuttleworth, eds. Body/Politics:
Women and the Discourses of Science (New York and London: Routledge,
1990). ISBN: 0415901316
Lippman, Abby. "Prenatal Genetic Testing and Geneticization:
Mother Matters for All." Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
8 (1993; supplement 1): 175- 188.
Morgan, Kathryn Pauly, "Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery
and the Colonization of Women's Bodies," Hypatia 6:
25-53 (1991).
Strauss, Ronald, "Surgery, Activism, and Aesthetics: A Sociological
Perspective on Treating Facial Disfigurements", in G. William
Lucker, Katherine A. Ribbons, and James A. MacNamara, Jr. eds, Psychological
Aspects of Facial Form, Monograph 11, Craniofacial Growth Series
(Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1980)
Genetic
Explorations in Science Fiction, Theatre, and Films
Aldiss, Brian
W., Trillion Year Spree (Avon, 1988)
Bear, Greg, Blood Music (Paperback reprinted: Ace Books,
1996)
Cherryh, C.J., Cyteen (Warner Books, 1995)
Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Del
Rey, 1996)
Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World (Harper Perennial Library,
1998)
Shelley, Mary W., Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
(W.W. Norton & Company, 1996)
Wells, H.G., The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Books, 1994)
Sci-Fi Channel "Science Fiction News of the Week" website:
SONY's hoax ad for the movie Gattaca, a full-page "ad"
in The New York Times advertising "Children made to
order" at
http://207.25.144.246/sfw/issue54/news.html
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