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General
Scientific Issues
(genes,
mapping, genetic manipulation, genetic engineering)
- Anderson,
W. French, "Gene Therapy." Scientific American
(September 1995), 124-128.
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Bowman, James E. and Robert F. Murray Jr., Genetic Variation
and Disorders in Peoples of African Origin (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1998).
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Davis, J., Mapping the Code: The Human Genome Project and the
Choices of Modern Science (New York: John Wiley, 1990).
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Gosden, Roger, Designing Babies: The Brave New World of Reproductive
Technology (W.H. Freeman and Co., New York, 1999).
Hai, Yan, Kenneth
W. Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein. "Genetic Testing-- Present and
Future". Science 289: 1890-1892 (2000)
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).
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- McFadden,
Johnjoe, "Our Genes are doomed," The Guardian, February
5, 2001. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4130720,00.html
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
(cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/toc/0,3392,1101990111,00.html)
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- 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).
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Cold Spring Harbor (NY) on-line DNA Learning Center at http://vector.cshl.org/
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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).
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- Appleyard,
Bryan. Brave New Worlds: Staying Human in the Genetic Future
(Viking Press, 1998.)
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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).
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Buchanan, Allen,
Norman Daniels, Dan Brock, and Daniel Wikler. From Chance to
Choice: Genetics and Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Cranor, Carl
F., ed., Are Genes Us? The Social Consequences of the New Genetics
(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994).
Deenen, Sally,
"Designer People: Are We Changing the Nature of Nature?"
E-Magazine, Jan-Feb 2001. Available at: http://www.emagazine.com/january-february_2001/0101feat1.html
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- Gardner,
William, "Can Human Genetic Enhancement be Prohibited?",
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 20: 65-84 (1995).
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Glover, Jonathan. What Sort of People Should There Be?
(New York: Penguin Books, 1992).
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Hubbard, Ruth and Elijah Wald. Exploding the Gene Myth
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1997).
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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.
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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).
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Kimbrell, Andrew, The Human Body Shop: The Cloning, Engineering,
and Marketing of Life (Regnery Publishing, Inc, 1998).
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Kohlenberg,
Leah. "Designer Babies?" Salon. Oct. 5, 2000. http://archive.salon.com/health/feature/2000/10/05/bone_marrow/index.html
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).
Stock, Gregory.
Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future ( Houghton Mifflin
Company, 2002).
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.
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- Duster, Troy,
Backdoor to Eugenics (New York: Routledge, 1990).
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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).
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Paul, Diane B. Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present
(Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Prometheus Books, 1995).
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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)
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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).
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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.
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Skodak, M. & Skeels, H. "A final follow-up study of 100
adopted children." Journal of Genetic Psychology,
1949, 75, 85-125.
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Steen, R. Grant. DNA and Destiny : Nature and Nurture in Human
Behavior (Plenum Press, 1996).
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Sternberg, Robert J., and Elena Grigorenko. Intelligence, Heredity,
and Environment (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
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Thomas, A. & Chess, S. Temperament and Development.
New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1977.
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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).
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- Aldhous,
P. "Who Needs a Genome Ethics Treaty?" Nature
351: 507 (1991).
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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).
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Annas, George J. and Sherman Elias, eds., Gene Mapping: Using
Law and Ethics as Guides (New York: Oxford University Press,
1992).
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Buchanan, Allen, Norman Daniels, Dan Brock, and Daniel Wikler.
From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice (Cambridge
University Press, 2002).
Cohen, Sherrill
and Nadine Taub, eds. Reproductive Laws for the 1990s (Clifton,
NJ: Human Press, 1989).
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- Gardner,
William, "Can Human Genetic Enhancement Be Prohibited? Journal
of Medicine and Philosophy 20: 65-84 (1995)
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Nowlan, William. "A Rational View of Insurance and Genetic
Discrimination". Science 297: 195-106 (2002). http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/297/5579/195
Silvers, Anita,
David Wasserman, and Mary Briody Mahowald. Disability, Difference,
Discrimination : Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public
Policy (Point/ Counterpoint) (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).
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- Stock, Gregory.
Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future ( Houghton
Mifflin Company, 2002).
Walters, LeRoy. "Human Gene Therapy: Ethics and Public Policy,"
Human Gene Therapy 2: 115-122.(1991).
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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)
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The Policy News and Information Service website at url:
- http://www.policy.com/issuewk/1998/1130_45/detail150.html
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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)
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- Bordo, Susan,
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)
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David, Kathy. Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic
Surgery (New York: Routledge, 1995)
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Gilman, Sander L. Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History
of Aesthetic Surgery (University of California Press, June
1999).
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Hausman, Bernice. Chapter 2, "Plastic Ideologies and Plastic
Transforma-tions", pp. 49-71 in Changing Sex: Transsexualism,
Technology, and the Idea of Gender (Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 1995).
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Hubbard, Ruth, The Politics of Women's Biology (New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990).
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Jacobus, Mary, Evelyn Fox Keller, and Sally Shuttleworth, eds.
Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science (New
York and London: Routledge, 1990).
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Lippman, Abby. "Prenatal Genetic Testing and Geneticization:
Mother Matters for All." Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
8 (1993; supplement 1): 175-188.
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Morgan, Kathryn Pauly, "Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery
and the Colonization of Women's Bodies," Hypatia 6:
25-53 (1991).
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Strauss, Ronald, "Surgery, Activism, and Aesthetics: A Sociological
Perspective on Treating Facial Disfigurements", in G. William
Lucker, Katherine
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- 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)
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Genetic Explorations in Science Fiction,
Theatre, and Films
Aldiss, Brian
W., Trillion Year Spree (Avon, 1988)
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- Bear, Greg,
Blood Music (Paperback reprinted: Ace Books, 1996)
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Cherryh, C.J., Cyteen (Warner Books, 1995)
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Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Del
Rey, 1996)
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Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World (Harper Perennial Library,
1998)
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Shelley, Mary W., Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
(W.W. Norton & Company, 1996)
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Wells, H.G., The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Books, 1994)
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- 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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