Genetics

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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.
• Andrews, Lori B., Maxwell J. Mehlman, and Mark A. Rothstein. Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy. 2nd ed. St. Paul, MN: West Law School, 2006.
• 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. Genetic Governance: Health, Risk and Ethics in a Biotech Era. New York: Routledge, 2005.
• Burley, Justine, ed. The Genetic Revolution and Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Burley, Justine, and John Harris, eds. A Companion to Genethics: Philosophy and the Genetic Revolution. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. 
• Condit, Celeste Michelle. The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. 
• Corrigan, Oonagh. Genetic Databases. New York: Routledge, 2004.
• Dann, Jack, and Gardner R. Dozois, eds. Clones: Nine Tales of Genetic Engineering and Its Impact on Tomorrow. New York: Ace, 1997.  
• Davis, Dena S. Genetic Dilemmas. New York: Routledge, 2001.  
• Deane-Drummond, Celia. Genetics and Christian Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Duster, Troy. Backdoor to Eugenics. New York: Routledge, 2003.  
• Glover, Jonathan.  Choosing Children. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006.
• Harris, John. Clones, Genes, and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetic Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Hashiloni-Dolev, Yael. A Life (Un)worthy of Living: Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany.Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2007.
• 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: Eerdmans, 1997.
• Laurie, Graeme. Genetic Privacy: A Challenge to Medico-legal Norms. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Lee, Keekok. Philosophy and Revolutions in Genetics: Deep Science and Deep Technology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
• Monsour, Daniel, ed. Ethics and the New Genetics: An Integrated Approach. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
• Murphy, Timothy, and Marc A. Lappe, eds. Justice and the Human Genome Project. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 
• Nelkin, Dorothy, and M. Susan Lindee. The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1995. 
• Nelson, J. Robert. On the New Frontiers of Genetics and Religion. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.
• 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: 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. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Peters, Ted. Genetics: Issues of Social Justice. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 1998.
• __________. Playing God: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1997.
• 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. Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
• Sharpe, Neil F., and Ronald F. Carter. Genetic Testing: Care, Consent and Liability. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Liss, 2006.
• 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.

Updated March 2009