ETHICS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

 

Betty Odello                                                                                         bodello@pacbell.net

 

Textbooks:

Andrews, Lori B., Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions  About Genetics, New York:

            Columbia University Press, 2001

Andrews, Lori. The Clone Age, Adventures in the New World of Reproductive

Technology,  New York, Henry Holt & Co, 1999.

Andrews, Lori and Dorothy Nelkin. Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the

Biotechnology Age, New York: Random House, 2001

Dawkins, Kristin, Gene Wars: The Politics of Biotechnology, New York: Seven Stories

            Press, 1997

Easton, Thomas A., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science,

Technology, and Society, 5th Ed., Conneticut: Dushkin/McGraw Hill, 2002.

Levine, Carol, ed. Taking Sides: Clasking views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 9th .

            Guilford, Conneticut: Dushkin/McGraw Hill, 2001.

            (Good book to show differing views. Introduction also reviews ethical theory)

McCuen, Marnie J. Redesigning Creation: Debating the Biotech Revolution, (Part of

            Ideas in Conflict Series). Hudson, Wisconsin: Gary McCuen  Publications, Inc.

            2000. (Ideas very simply stated)

McGee, Glenn. The Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic approach to Genetics, Maryland:

            Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997.

Pence, Gregory, ed., Flesh of My Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning, New York: Rowman

            & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998.

Pence, Gregory E., Who’s Afraid of Human Cloning, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

            Publishers, Inc., 1998.

Pojman, Louis P., Ethics:Discovering Right and Wrong, Belmont: Wadsworth, 1999.

Rifkin, Jeremy. The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World,

            New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1998.

Solomon, Robert. A Handbook for Ethics. New York, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996

            (Excellent overview of ethical theory, simple)

Wekesser, Carol,ed. Genetic Engineering: Opposing Viewpoints, CA: Greenhaven Press,

            1996. (Simple reader on wide spectrum of topics)

Winston, Morton, and Ralph Edelbach, Society, Ethics, and Technology, Belmont:

            Wadsworth, 2000. (Excellent for interdisciplinary ideas)

 

Fiction:

Cook, Robin, Chromosome 6. New York: Berkley Books, 1997 (Mutation also)

Patterson, James, When the Wind Blows. New York: Little, Brown, and Co., 1998.

 

Web sites:

http://wethicsww.bio.net  (excellent site to search from)

http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/ (good HS link, practical)

http://www.scu.edu/Ethics/

http://www.ethics.sandiego.edu/