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A List of Books about DNA & Society



Bioethics     Eugenics     Evolution     Forensic DNA Testing     History of DNA     Human Genetics     Human Genome Project     Recombinant DNA Debate





Bioethics

  1. Agius, Emmanuel, and Busuttil, Salvino, (editors), Germ-Line Intervention and Our Responsibilities to Future Generations, (Kluwer Academic, Boston, Massachusetts, 1998).

  2. Andrews, Lori B., Medical Genetics: A Legal Frontier, (American Bar Foundation, Chicago, 1987).

  3. Annas, George J., and Elias, Sherman, (editors), Gene Mapping: Using Law and Ethics as a Guide, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992).

  4. Bartels, Dianne M., LeRoy, B.S., and Caplan, A.L., (editors), Prescribing Our Future: Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling, (Aldine de Gruyter, New York, 1993).

  5. Bartels, Dianne M., LeRoy, B.S., and Caplan, A.L., (editors), Prescribing Our Future: Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling, (Aldine de Gruyter, New York, 1993).

  6. Becker, Garhold K., (editor), Changing Nature's Course: The Ethical Challenge of Biotechnology, (Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 1996).

  7. Beers, Roland F., and Bassett, Edward G., (editors), Recombinant Molecules: Impact on Science and Society, (Raven Press, New York, 1977). There are many interesting chapters in this book.

  8. Birg, Kare, and Tranoy, Knut Erik, (editors), Research Ethics, (Alan R. Liss, New York, 1983). There are a couple of chapters dealing with DNA technology, for example one chapter is entitled "Lessons to be Learned from the Recombinant DNA Controversy".

  9. Buckley, John J., Genetics Now: Ethical Issues in Genetic Research, (University Press of America, Washington, D.C., 1978).

  10. Caplan, Arthur L., (editor), When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust, (Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey, 1992). This book is about eugenics. One of the chapters is entitled "The Human Genome Project in Perspective: Confronting Our Past to Protect Our Future".

  11. Chadwick, Derek, (editor), Human Genetic Information: Science, Law, and Ethics, Ciba Foundation Symposium, number 149, (Wiley, New York, 1990).

  12. Chadwick, Ruth, Levitt, Mairi, and Shickle, Darren, The Right to Know, and the Right Not to Know, (Ashgate, Brookfield, Vermont , 1997). This is a book about genetic testing.

  13. Cheney, Darwin, (editor), Ethical Issues in Research, (University Publishing Group, Frederick, Maryland, 1993). One of the chapters is entitled "The Recombinant DNA Revolution and the Fading of the Concept of "Pure" Science at theRoot of Ethical Issues in Biological Research".

  14. Clarke, Angus, and Parsons, Evelyn, Culture, Kinship, and Genes: Towards Cross-Cultural Genetics, (St. MartinŐs Press, New York, 1997).

  15. Clark,William R., The New Healers: The Promise andProblems of Molecular Medicine in the Twenty-First Century, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y., 1997).

  16. Clements, Colleen D., Medical Genetics Casebook: A Clinical Introduction to Medical Ethics Systems Theory, Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society, (Humana Press, Clifton, New Jersey, 1982).

  17. Cranor, Carl F., Are Genes Us? The Social Consequences of the New Genetics, (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1994).

  18. Czeizel, Endre, The Right To Be Born Healthy: The Ethical Problems of Human Genetics in Hungary, translated by Catherine Koltai Bokor and Gabe Bokor (Liss, New York, 1988). This book is an English translation from Hungarian (I wonŐt even TRY and type the title of this book into HTML format!).

  19. Demy, Timothy J., and Stewart, Gary P., Genetic Engineering: A Christian Response - Crucial Considerations in Shaping Life, (Kregal Publications, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1999).

  20. Doherty, Peter, and Sutton, Agneta, (editors), Man-Made Man: Ethical and Legal Issues in Genetics, (Open Air, Dublin, Ireland , 1997).

  21. Fine, Beth A., (editor), Strategies in Genetic Counseling: Reproductive Geneics & New Technologies, Birth Defects original article sereis, volume 26, number 3, (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, White Plains, New York, 1990).

  22. Fisher, Nancy L., (editor), Cultural and Ethnic Diversity: A Guide for Genetics Professionals, (John Hopkins University Press, 1996).

  23. Freedman, Warren, Legal Issues in Biotechnology and Human Reproduction, (Quorum Books, New York, 1991).

  24. Fudenberg, H. Hugh, and Melnick, Vijaya L., (editors), Biomedical Scientists and Public Policy, (Plenum Press, New York, 1978). One of the chapters is entitled "Much ado about Recombinant DNA Regulations".

  25. Fugiki, N., Bulyzhenkov, V., and Bankowski, Z., (editors) Medical Genetics and Society, this book is based on the International Panel discussion on Ethics in Medical Genetics, held at the Phoenix Plaza, Fukui, Japan, on 3 August, 1990. (Kugler, New York, NY, 1991). One of the chapters is on "DNA Technology, Neonatal Screening, and Antenatal Diognosis in an Ethical Perspective".

  26. Fujiki, Norio, and Macer, Darryl R. J., (editors), Human Genome Research and Society, (Eubios Ethics Institute, Christchurch, 1992). This book is based on the proceedings of the Second International Bioethics Seminar in Fukui-shi, Japan, held on 20-21 March, 1992.

  27. Glasner, Peter, and Rothman, Harry, (editors), Genetic Imaginations: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Human Genome Research, Avebury Series in Philosophy, (Ashgate, Brookfield, Vermont, 1998).

  28. Grubb, Andrew, and Pearl, David S., Blood Testing, AIDS and DNA Profiling: Law and Policy, Family law guide practice series, (Jordan and Sons, Bristol, England, 1990).

  29. Haker, Hille, Hearn, R., and Steigleder, K., (editors), Ethics of Human Genome Analysis: European Perspectives, (Attempto Verlag, Tubingen, Germany, 1993).

  30. Hall, Laura Lee Genetics and Mental Illness: Evolving Issues for Research and Society, (Plenum Press, New York, 1996).

  31. Hammons, Helen G., (editor), Heredity Counseling, (Hoeber-Harper, New York, 1959).

  32. Harsanyi, Z. and Hutton, R., GENETIC PROPHECY: BEYOND THE DOUBLE HELIX (BANTAM BOOKS, New York, 1981). This book talks about the importance of "genetics" ( = DNA sequence) in determining many aspects of our health and behaviour. In a sense, because it was written at the early stages of such an explosion in knowledge, this is a good preview of what is happening presently.

  33. Heller, Jan Christian, Human Genome Research and the Challenge of Contingent Future Persons, (Creighton University Press, Omaha, Nebraska, 1996).

  34. Holdrege, Craig, Genetics and the Manipulation of Life: The Forgotten Factor of Context, Renewal in Science series, (Lindisfarne Press, Hudson, New York, 1996).

  35. Holtzman, Neil A., Proceed With Caution: Predicting Genetic Risks in the Recombinant DNA Era, The Johns Hopkins series in contemporary medicine and public health, (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1989).

  36. Hoshino, Kazumasa, (editor), Japanese and Western Bioethics: Studies in Moral Diversity, (Kluwer Academic, Boston, Massachusetts, 1997).

  37. Hubbard, R., and Wald, E. Exploding the Gene Myth (Beacon Press, Boston, 1993).

  38. Hutton, Richard, Bio-revolution: DNA and the ethics of man-made life, (New American Library, New York, 1978).

  39. Jarvik, Lissy, F., and Sperber, Michael A., Psychiatry and Genetics: Ethical, and Legal Considerations, (Basic Books, New York, 1976).

  40. Junker-Kenny, Maureen, and Cahill, Lisa Sowle, (editors), The Ethics of Genetic Engineering, Concilium series, (SCM Press, London, 1998).

  41. Kelves, Daniel J., In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, (Knopf, New York, 1985, 2nd edition 1995).

  42. Kelves, D.J., and Hood, L., editors, "THE CODE OF CODES - Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project", (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992).

  43. Kent, Theodore C., Mapping the Human Genome: Reality, Morality, and Deity, (University Press of Americah, Lanham, 1995).

  44. Kilner, John F., Pentz, Rebecca D., and Young, Frank E., (editors), Genetic Ethics: Do the Ends Justify the Genes?", (W.B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1997). This book includes a chapter by Francis Collins, who is currently the director of the Human Genome Project in the U.S.

  45. Knoppers, Bartha Maria, (editor) Human DNA: Law and Policy, International and Comparative Perspectives, Proceedings of the First International Conference on DNA Sampling and Human Genetic Research: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Aspects, held in Montreal, Canada, 6-8 September, 1996, (Kluwer Law International, Boston, 1997).

  46. Knoppers, Bartha Maria, (editor), Socio-Ethical Issues in Human Genetics, (Y. Blais, Cowansville, Quebec, Canada, 1998).

  47. Kuhse, Helga, and Singer, Peter, (editors), A Companion to Bioethics, (Blackwell, Malden, Massachusetts, 1998). One of the chapters is entitled "Creating and Patenting New Life Forms", and another is about "Mapping the Human Genome".

  48. Lakoff, Sanford A., (editor), Science and Ethical Responsibility (Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1980). This book is based on the proceedings of the U.S. Student Pugwash Conference, held at the University of California, San Diego, 19-26 June, 1979. There is a chapter on "The Recombinant DNA Debate and the Precedent of Leo Szilard".

  49. Lappe, Marc, Broken Code: The Exploitation of DNA, (Sierra Club Books, San Fransisco, 1984).

  50. Lappe, Marc, and Morison, Robert S., (editors), Scientific Issues Posed by Human Uses of Molecular Genetics, (New York Academy of Sciences, New York, N.Y., 1976).

  51. Lebacqz, Karen, Genetics, Ethics, and Parenthood, (Pilgrim Press, New York, 1983).

  52. Lewontin, R.C., Rose, S., and Kamin, L.J. NOT IN OUR GENES - Biology, Ideology and Human Nature (Pantheon Books, New York, 1984).

  53. Lewontin,R.C., Biology As Ideology : The Doctrine of DNA, (Reprint Edition, Published by Harperperennial Library, 1993) Lewontin is easily considered one of the world's leading scientists; in this book he examines how "pure science" is in fact shaped and guided by social and political needs and assumptions. Very interesting reading, although I think he sometimes perhaps goes a bit overboard.

  54. Lipkin, Mack, and Rowley, Peter T., Genetic Responsibility: On Choosing Our ChildrenŐs Genes, (Plenum Press, New York, 1994).

  55. McGee, Glenn, The Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach to Genetics, (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, 1997).

  56. McLean, Sheila, A.M., (editor), Contemporary Issues in Law, Medicine, and Ethics, (Dartmouth, Brookfield, Vermont, 1996). One of the chapters is entitled "Biotechnology and Intellectual Property: A Marriage of Inconvience?"

  57. Mehlman, Maxwell J., and Botkin, Jeffrey R., Access to the Genome: TheChallenge to Equality, (Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 1998).

  58. Milunsky, Aubrey, and Annas, George J., (editors), Genetics and the Law, (Plenum Press, New York , 1975, 2nd volume in 1980, 3rd volume in 1985). One of the chapters is entitled "Just When You Thought it was Safe: an Update on the Risks of Recombinant DNA Technology", and there is another chapter about mapping the human genome.

  59. Moraczewski, Albert S., (editor), Genetic Medicine and Engineering: Ethical and Social Dimensions, (Catholic Health Association of the United States, St. Louis, Missouri, 1983).

  60. Murray, Thomas H., The Genome, Ethics, and the Law: Issues in Genetic Testing, AAAS-ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, AAAS Committee on Scientific Responsibility, (American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. , 1992).

  61. Nelkin, Dorothy, and Lindee, M.Susan, The DNA Mystique : The Gene As a Cultural Icon (W H Freeman &Co., San Fransisco, 1996). This book was written by two sociologists. I thought some of their points were interesting, but I was a bit dissapointed with their lack of understanding of the science. Having said that, I think that this book is perhaps a quite good discussion of what SOCIETY at large thinks of DNA, which can be different from what is the mindset within the scientific community.

  62. Nelson, J. Robert, On the New Frontiers of Genetics and Religion, (W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1994). This book is about the human genome project.

  63. Okamoto, Michio, Fujiki, Norio, and Macer, Darryl R.J., (editors), Protection of the Human Genome and Scientific Responsibility, (Eubios Ethics Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1996).

  64. Peters, Ted, (editor), Genetics: Issues of Social Justice, The Pilgrim Library of Ethics, (Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 1998).

  65. Porter, Ian H., and Skalko, Richard G., (editors), Heredity and Society, Birth Defects Institute symposia series, (Academic Press, New York, 1973). This book is based on the proceedings of the Symposium on Heredity and Society, held in Albany, New York, in 1971.

  66. Porter, Iain H., and Messer, Anne, Recombinant DNA andMedical Genetics (Academic Press, New York, 1983). This book is based on the proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual New York State Health Department Birth Defects Symposium, held 15-16 November, 1982, in Albany, New York.

  67. Radfield, Casper Lavater, Control of Heredity: A Study of the Genesis of Evolution and Degeneracy, (Monarch Book Company, Chicago, 1903).

  68. Reed, Sheldon C., Counseling in Medical Genetics, (Published forthe Dight Institute by the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1949, 3rd edition in 1980).

  69. Reed, Sheldon C., A Law for Human Genetics, (Published for the Dight Institute by the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1959). This book also contains two discourses by Pope Pius XII.

  70. Reich, Warren Thomas, (editor), Encyclopedia of Bioethics, (Simon and Schuster Macmillan, New York, N.Y., 1995).

  71. Richards, John, (editor), Recombinant DNA: Science, Ethics, and Politics, (Academic Press, New York, 1978).

  72. Robbins, Dennis A., Dyer, and Allen R., (editors), Ethical Dimensions of Clinical Medine, (Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1981). One of the chapters is entitled "Recombinant DNA: A Paradigm of the Science-Society Interface.

  73. Roberts, D.F., and Chester, R., (editors), Molecular Genetics in Medicine: Advances, Applications, and Ethical Implications, (St. Martin's Press, New York , 1991).

  74. Rothstein, Mark A., (editor), Legal and Ethical Issues Raised by the Human Genome Project, (Health, Law and Policy Institute, University of Houston, Texas, 1991). This book is based on the proceedings of a conference in Houston, Texas, 7-9 March, 1991.

  75. Rothstein, Mark A., (editor), Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era, (Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1997).

  76. Santos, Miguel A., Genetics and ManŐs Future: Legal, Social, and Moral Implications of Genetic Engineering, (Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1981). This book discusses eugenics and genetic engineering, amongst other topics.

  77. Schild, Sylvia, and Black, Rita B., Social Work and Genetics: A Guide for Practice, (Haworth Press, New York, 1984).

  78. Schmidt, Erwin R., and Hankeln,Thomas, (editors), Transgenic Organisms and Biosafety: Horizontal Gene Transfer, Stability of DNA, and Expression of Transgenes, (Springer, New York, 1996).

  79. Shattuck, Roger, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography, (Harcourt Brace, San Diego, California , 1996).

  80. Sheldon, Krimsky, Genetic Alchemy: TheSocial History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy, (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1982).

  81. Shinn, Roger Lincoln, The New Genetics: Challenges for Science, Faith, and Politics, (Moyer Bell, Wakefield, Rhode Island, 1996). This book is about the human genome project.

  82. Sloan, Phillip R., Controlling Our Destinites: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project, Studies In Science and the Humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, volume 5, (University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiania, 1997).

  83. Smith, George Patrick, Genetics, Ethics, and the Law, New Studies on Law and Society, (Associated Faculty Press, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1981).

  84. Sroem, R.J., Bulyzhenkov, V., Prilipko, L., Christen, Y., Ethical Issues in Molecular Genetics, (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1991). This book is based on a meeting held in Brno, Czecholsovakia, on 11-12 June, 1990, organized by the WHO Division of Mental Health, in collaboration with the IPSEN Foundation.

  85. Steen, R. Grant, DNA and Destiny: Nature and Nurture in Human Behavior, (Plenum Press, New York, 1996).

  86. Stein, Gerald James, Biosocial Genetics: Human Heredity and Social Issues, (Macmillan, New York, 1977).

  87. Sterckx, Sigrid (editor), Biotechnology, Patents, and Morality, (Ashgate, Brookfield, Vermon , 1997). This book is based on the proceedings of an International Worksho, "Biotechnology, Patents and Morality: Towards a Consensus", held in Ghent, Belgium, 17-19 January, 1996.

  88. Stine, Gerald James, Biosocial Genetics: Human Heredity and Social Issues, (Macmillan, New York, 1977).

  89. Suzuki, David T., and Knudtson, Peter, Genethics: The Clash Between the New Genetics and Human Values, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989).

  90. Tagliaferro, Linda, Genetic Engineering: Progress or Peril? , (Lerner Publications, Minneapolis, Minnesota , 1997).

  91. Teichler-Zallen, D., Does It Run in the Family? A Consumer's Guide to DNA Testing for Genetic Disorders, (Published by Rutgers Univ. Press, Rutgers, New Jersey, 1997). Genetic testing is becoming ever more common, with many more difficult choices as more tests tell us more about ourselves.

  92. Thackray, Arnold, (editor), Private Science: Biotechnology and the Rise of Molecular Sciences, The Chemical Sciences in Society series, (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1998).

  93. Turney, Jon, FrankensteinŐs Footsteps: Science, Genetics, and Popular Culture, (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998).

  94. Vanderpool, Harold Y., (editor), The Ethics of Research Involving Human Subjects: Facing the 21st Century, (University Publishing Group, Frederick, Maryland, 1996). One of the chapters in this book is entitled "Respecting Human Subjects in Genome Research: A Preliminary Policy Agenda".

  95. Vial Correa, Juan de Dios, and Sgreccia, Elio, (editors), Human Genome, Human Person, and The Society of The Future, (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Citti del Vaticano, 1999). This book is based on the proceedings of the Fourth Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, held in Vatican City, 23-25 February, 1998.

  96. Wagner, Robert F., Lawrence, Susan C., and Fales, Evan, (editors), Genes and Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Modern Genetics, (University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1994).

  97. Warnock, Mary, The Human Genome Project: Ethics and Law, The Uses of Philosophy series, (Blackwell, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992).

  98. Weir, Robert F., Lawrence, Susan C., and Fales, Evan, (editors), Genes and Human Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections in Modern Genetics, (University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1994).

  99. Weissmann, Gerald W., Democracy and DNA: American Dreams and Medical Progress, (Hill and Wang, New York, 1995).

  100. Wilkie, Tom, Perilous Knowledge: the Human Genome Project and its Implications, (University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1993).

  101. Wirz, Johannes, and Lammerts van Bueren, Edith T., (editors) The Future of DNA, Proceedings of an International Conference on Presuppositions in Science and Expectations in Society, held in Goetheanum, dornach, Switzerland, on 2-5 October, 1996, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1997).

  102. Woodhead, Avril D., and Barnhart, Benjamin J., (editors), Biotechnology and the Human Genome: Innovations and Impact, Basic Life Sciences series, (Plenum Press, New York, 1988).

  103. Wulf, Keith M., (editor), Regulation of Scientific Inquiry: Societal Concerns with Research, AAAS Selected Symposia Series, number 37, (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1979). This included a chapter on Recombinant DNA legislation.

  104. Zallen, Doris Teichler, Does It Run in the Family? A Consumer's Guide to DNA Testing for Genetic Disorders, (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1997).

  105. Zilinskas, Raymond A., and Zimmerman, Burke K., (editors), The Gene-Splicing Wars: Reflections on the Recombinant DNA Controversy, Issues in Science and Technology Series, (Macmillan, New York, 1986).

  106. Zlinskas, Raymond A, and Balint, Peter J., (editors), The Human Genome Project and Minority Communities: Ethical, Social, and Political Dilemmas, (Praeger, Westport, Conneticut, 2000).



Eugenics

  1. Bajema, Carl Jay, (editor), Eugenics: Then and Now, Benchmark Papers in Genetics, volume 5, (Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Strodsbury, Pennsylvania, 1976).

  2. Bibby, Cyril, Heredity, Eugenics, and Social Progress, The New People's Library, volume 25, (V. Gollancz, Limited, London, 1939).

  3. Caplan, Arthur L., (editor), When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust, (Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey, 1992). This book is about eugenics. One of the chapters is entitled "The Human Genome Project in Perspective: Confronting Our Past to Protect Our Future".

  4. Castle, W.E., Coulter,J.M., Davenport,C.E., East, E.M., and Tower, W.L., Heredity and Eugenics, A course of lectures summarizing recent advances in knowledge of variation, heredity, and evolution and its relation to plant, animal, and human improvement and welfare, (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1913).

  5. Conn, Hervert William, Social Heredity and Social Evolution: The Other Side of Eugenics, (The Abingdon Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1914).

  6. Cook, Robert C., and Burks, Barbara Stoddard, How Heredity Builds our Lives: An Introduction to Human Genetics and Eugenics, (American Genetic Association, Washington, D.C., 1946).

  7. Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, Sir Francis Galton and the Study of Heredity in the Nineteenth Century, (University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1973). This is a reprint of Ruth Cowan's Thesis on the history of eugenics.

  8. Davenport, Charles Benedict, Heredity in Relation to Eugenics, (Arno Press & the New York Times, New York, 1972). This book is a Facisimile of the 1911 edition.

  9. Dugdale, Richard Louis, The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease, and Heredity, (Putnman, New York, 1887, 4th edition in 1910).

  10. Fasten, Nathan, Principles of Genetics and Eugenics: A Study of Heredity and Variation in Plants, Animals, and Man, (Ginn and Company, Boston, 1935).

  11. Fisher, Ronald A., Darwin, Leopard, and Bennett, J.H., Natural Selection, Heredity and Eugenics: Including Selected Correspondance of R. A. Fisher with Leonard Darwin and others, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1983).

  12. Friedhoff, Henry William, Eugenics, Scientific Generation of Offspring: Principles and Material Basis of Heredity and Prenatal Influence, (St. Louis, Missouri, 1901).

  13. Gates, Reginald Ruggles, Heredity and Eugenics, (Constable, London, 1923).

  14. Goldsmith, William Marion, The Laws of Life: Principles of Evolution, Heredity, and Eugenics, (R G. Badger, Boston, 1922).

  15. Goddard, Henry Herbert, The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeblemindedness, (The Macmillan Company, New York, 1912).

  16. Greenblatt, Augusta, Heredity and You: How You Can Protect Your Family's Future, (Coward, McCan, & Geoghegan, New York, 1974).

  17. Harwood, Jonathan, Styles of Scientific Thought: The German Genetics Community, 1900-1933, Science and its Conceptual Foundations series, (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993).

  18. Jennings, Herbert Spencer, Scientific Aspects of the Race Problem, (Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 1941).

  19. Kelves, Daniel J., In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, (Knopf, New York, 1985, 2nd edition 1995).

  20. Key, Wilhelmine Marie Heredity and Social Fitness: A Study of Differential Mating in a Pennsylvania Family, (The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., 1920). Paper number 32 of the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York.

  21. Lidbetter, Ernest James, Heredity and the Problem Social Group, (E. Arnold & Company, London, 1933). The preface states "The purpose of this work is to make available data gathered in investigations which were carried on in the east end of London between 1910 and 1928".

  22. McGee, Glenn, The Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach to Genetics, (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, 1997).

  23. Nksbet, John Ferguson, Mariage and Heredity: A View of Psychological Evolution, (Ward and Downey, London, 2nd edition in 1890, 3rd edition in 1903).

  24. Osborn, Frederick, The Future of Human Heredity: An Introduction to Eugenics, (Weybright and Talley, New York, 1968).

  25. Patten, Simon N., Heredity and Social Progress, The History of Hereditarian Thought series, number 23, (Garland Publishers, New York, 1984). this is a book about evolution and genetics. It is a reprint of the 1903 edition, by Macmillan Press, in New York.

  26. Paul, Diane B., Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to Present, (Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 1995).

  27. Paul, Daine B., The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate, (State University of New York Press, New York, 1998).

  28. Santos, Miguel A., Genetics and ManŐs Future: Legal, Social, and Moral Implications of Genetic Engineering, (Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1981). This book discusses eugenics and genetic engineering, amongst other topics.

  29. Schmucker, Samuel Christian, Heredity and Parenthood, (The Macmillan Company, New York, 1929). This is a book about eugenics.

  30. Shannon, Thomas Washington, Heredity Explained, (The S.A. Mullikin Company, Marietta, Ohio, 1913). This is a book about eugenics.

  31. Shannon, Thomas Washington, and Truitt, William John, Personal Help for the Maried: A Volume of Vital Factors for All Married and Marriabeable Men and Women, Who Would Escape the Disastrous Consequences of Ignorance of the Laws of Sex and Heredity, (The S.A. Mullikin Company, Marietta, Ohio, 1918).

  32. Siemens, Hermann Werner, and Barker, Lewellys Franklin, Race, Hygiene and Heredity, (Appleton, New York, 1924). This book was translated and edited by Lewellys Barker.



Evolution & DNA

  1. Adams, Julian, (editor), Convergent Issues in Genetics and Demography, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1990).

  2. Ammerman, Albert J., The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations, (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1984).

  3. Attardi, Giuseppe, and Chomyn, Anne, (editors), Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Genetics, Methods in Enzymology, volume 260, (Academic Press, San Diego, 1995).

  4. Baily, Jill, Evolution and Genetics: The Molecules of Inheritance, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1995).

  5. Ballonoff, Paul A., (editor), Genetics and Social Structure: Mathematical Structuralism in Population Genetics and Social Theory, Benchmark papers in Genetics, volume 1, (Dowden, Hutchinson, & Press, 1974).

  6. Ballonoff, Paul A., and Weiss, Kenneth M., Demographic Genetics, BenchmarkPapers in Genetics, volume 3, (Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1975).

  7. Barker, James S.F., Starmer, W.T., and MacIntyre, R.J. Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics of Drosophila, Monographs in Evolutionary Biology series, (Plenum Press, New York, 1990).

  8. Bell, Graham, The Masterpiece of Nature: The Evolution of Genetics of Sexuality, (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982).

  9. Bengston, S., (editor), Early Life On Earth, Nobel Symposium, number 84, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1994). This book is based on the 84th Nobel Symposium, held in Karskoga, Sweden, 16-21 May, 1992. One of the chapters in this book is entitled: "From Protein Domains to Extinct Phyla: Reverses-Engineering Approaches to the Evolution of Biological Complexities".

  10. Birky, C. William, Byers,T.J., and Perlman, P.S., Genetics and Biogenesis of Mitochondria and Chloroplasts, (Ohio State University Press, Columbus, Ohio, 1975).

  11. Bodmer, Walter F., and Cavalli-Sforza, L.L., Genetics, Evolution, and Man, (Freeman, San Francisco, 1976).

  12. Brenner, Sydney, and Hanihara, Kazuro, (editors), The Origin and Past of Modern Humans as Viewed from DNA, Recent Advances in Human Biology, volume 1, (World Scientific Publishers, River Edge, New Jersey, 1995). This book is based on the proceedings from the workshop on the Origin and Past of Homo sapeins sapeins as Viewed from DNA - Theoretical Approach, held in Kyoto, Japan, on 14 - 17 December, 1993.

  13. Brooks, William Keith, The Law of Heredity: A Study of the Cause of Variation, and the Origin of Living Organisms, (J. Murphy & Company, Baltimore, 1883).

  14. Campbell, J.H., and Schopf, J.W., (editors), Creative Evolution?, (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston, 1994).

  15. Caporale, Lynne Helena, (editor), Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, volume 870, (New York Academy of Sciences, New York, N.Y., 1999).

  16. Castle, William Ernest, Heredity in Relation to Evolution and Animal Breeding, (D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1911).

  17. Cavalier-Smith, T., (editor), The Evolution of Genome Size, (J. Wiley, New York, 1985).

  18. Clarke, B.C., Robertson, A., and Jeffreys, A.J., (editors), The Evolution of DNA Sequences, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, volume 312, number 1154, (Royal Society, London, 1987).

  19. Conn, Hervert William, Social Heredity and Social Evolution: The Other Side of Eugenics, (The Abingdon Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1914).

  20. Coppedge, James F., Evolution: Possible or Impossible? Molecular Biology and The Laws of Chance in Nontechnical Language. A New Approach to the Subject, Based on Exciting Recent Discoveries Involving Proteins and DNA, the "Golden Molecule" of Heredity, Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives series, (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1973).

  21. Cravens, Hamilton, The Triumph of Evolution: American Scientists and thhe Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1900-1941, (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1978).

  22. Crow, James F., Basic Concepts in Population, Quantitative, and Evolutionary Genetics, (W. H. Freeman, New York, 1986).

  23. Cunningham, Joseph Thomas, Hormones and Heredity: A Discussion of the Evolution of Adaptations and the Evolution of Species, (Constable and Company, Ltd., London, 1921).

  24. Cutler, Donald Ward, Evolution, Heredity, and Variation, (Christophers, London, 1925).

  25. Dawkins, R., The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press, New York, 1976).

  26. Dawkins, R., The Extended Phenotype (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982).

  27. Dawkins, R., THE BLIND WATCHMAKER: Why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1986).

  28. Dawkins, R., RIVER OUT OF EDEN - A Darwinian View of Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1995). This book is essentially an updated version of "The Selfish Gene", modified a bit. Basically the idea is that we (humans) are nothing more than vehicles for replicating our genes, and that "DNA" is our sole reason for existence. As much as I like DNA, I find this idea philosophically depressing.

  29. Dawkins, R., Cimbing Mount Improbable (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1996).

  30. Demerec, Milislav, et al., Cytology, Genetics, and Evolution, (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1941).

  31. Dingle, Hugh, and Hegmann, J.P., (editors), Evolution and Genetics of Life Histories, (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1982).

  32. Dobzhansky, Th., Genetics and the Origin of Species (Morningside Heights: Columbia University Press, New York, 1941). In this edition, Dobzhansky further links Darwinian evolution to Mendellian genetics (see Fisher, 1930) - Dobzhansky's book was important for establishing this idea in the US.

  33. Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, Heredity and the Nature of Man, (Harcourt, Brace, & World, New York, 1964).

  34. Dobzhansky, Theodosius G., and Lewontin, R.C., Dobzhansky's Genetics of Natural Populations, volumes I through XLIII, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1981).

  35. Doolittle, Russel F., (editor), Molecular Evolution: Computer Analysis of Protein and Nucleic Acid Sequences, Methods in Enzymology, volume 183, (Academic Press, San Diego, 1990).

  36. Dover, G.A., and Flavell, R.B., (editors), Genome Evolution, Systematics Association special volume, number 20, (Academic Press, New York, 1982).

  37. Du Pasquier, Louis, and Litman, Gary W., (editors), Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Immune System, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, number 248, (Springer, New York, 2000). One of the chapters is about "Geneome paralogy: A New Perspective on the Orgainzation and Origin of the Major Histocompatibility Complex".

  38. Dunn, Leslie Clarence, and Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, Heredity, Race, and Society, (Penguin Press, New York, 1946, new and enlarged edition, 1952).

  39. Dunn, Leslie Clarence, Heredity and Evolution in Human Populations, Harvard books in biology series, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959).

  40. Ehrman, Lee, Behavior Genetics and Evolution, (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1981).

  41. Eldredge, N., Reinventing Darwin - The Great Evolutionary Debate (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1995). This book describes the differences between two different ideas about evolution: the "ultra-Darwinians", including Richard Dawkins (see above) and the "organismal" biologists, who look at the evolution of whole creatures, rather than "just genes".

  42. Fisher, R.A., The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1930). This is the first link between Mendellian genetics and Darwinian evolution, even though both of Darwin and Mendell published around the same time (1850's to 1860's). Francois Jacob (1973, see below) makes a strong argument that the two ideas were not really deemed compatible in the late 1800's, and it was not until the beginning of this century that Mendell's genes could be considered as a valid mechanism for explaining evolution.

  43. Fisher, Ronald A., Darwin, Leopard, and Bennett, J.H., Natural Selection, Heredity and Eugenics: Including Selected Correspondance of R. A. Fisher with Leonard Darwin and others, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1983).

  44. Fitch, Walter M., and Ayala, Francisco,Jose, (editors), Tempo and Mode in Evolution: 50 Years After Simpson, (National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1995).

  45. Gesteland, Raymond F., Cech, Thomas, and Atkins John F., The RNA World: The Nature of Modern RNA Suggests a Prebiotic RNA, Cold Spring Harbor monograph series, number 37, (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1993, 2nd edition, 1999).

  46. Goldsmith, William Marion, The Laws of Life: Principles of Evolution, Heredity, and Eugenics, (R G. Badger, Boston, 1922).

  47. Goldstein, D.B., and Schlötterer Microsatellites - Evolution and Applications, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999).

  48. Greenfield, Theodore J., Variation, Heredity, and Scientific Explanation in the Evolutionary Theories of Four American neo-Lamarckians, 1867-1897, (U.M.I. Dissertation Information Service, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988).

  49. Grun, Paul, Cytoplasmic Genetics and Evolution, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1976).

  50. Gustafson, James Paul, Sebbins, G.L., and Ayala, F.J., (editors), Genetics, Development, and Evolution, Stadler Genetics symposia series, (Plenum Press, New York, 1986).

  51. Hart, David B., Phases of Evolution and Heredity, (Rebman, London, 1910).

  52. Herrmann,B., and Herrmann,S.H., Ancient DNA : Recovery and Analysis of Genetic Material from Paleontological, Archaeological, Museum, Medical, and Forensic Specimens (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 1994). Although this does NOT tell you how to reconstruct a dinosaur, it IS a good source of information for many diverse and powerful applications of recombinant DNA technology.

  53. Hoppensteadt, F.C., Mathematical Theories of Populations: Demographics, Genetics, and Epidemics, Regional conference series in Applied Mathematics, (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1975).

  54. Hurst, Charles Chamberlain, Heredity & The Ascent of Man, (University Press, Cambridge, 1935).

  55. Jacob, F. The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity, (Vintage Books, New York, 1973). This book is an English translation of the French La logique du vivant. This is an excellent historical account of the development of the idea of genes (and DNA) as the source of hereditary units. He traces the history of ideas, in terms of the overall scientific point of view at various times in history. Basically, Jacob proposes that, although Darwin and Mendell were contemporaries, the time was not right for acceptance of Mendellian genetics as the form of Darwinian evolution. He argues that the development of statistical mechanics, and the concept of "negative entropy" (e.g., the universe is running down, or becoming more random, and that it takes energy to prevent things from becoming more disorganised - thus life requires energy to fight the tendency towards decay) were necessary requirements for the acceptance of the "randomness" of the assortment of genes. Thus he strongly relates developments in the physical sciences to ideas in biology.

  56. Jameson, David L., Genetics of Speciation, Benchmark Papers in Genetics, volume 9, (Dowden, Hutchinson, & Ross, Strodsburg, Pennsylvania, 1977).

  57. Jameson, David L., Evolutionary Genetics, Benchmark Papers in Genetics, volume 8, (Dowden, Hutchinson,& Ross, Strodsburg, Pennsylvania, 1977).

  58. Jennings, Herbert Spencer, Life and Death, Heredity and Evolution in Unicellular Organisms, (R.G. Badger, Boston, 1920).

  59. John, Bernard, and Miklos, George L.G., The Eukaryotic Genome In Development and Evolution, (Allen & Unwin, Boston, 1988).

  60. Johnston, Francis E., OŐRourke, D.H., and Petersen, G.M., (editors), Genetics, Evolution, and Disease, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, volume 62, (Liss, New York, 1983). This book is based on the proceedings of the 51st meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, held in Eugene, Oregon, on 1-3 April, 1982.

  61. Karlin, Samuel, and Nevo, Eviatar, editors, Population Genetics and Ecology, (Academic Press, New York, 1976).

  62. Khanna, S.S., Genetics, Heredity, and Evolution, (Central Book Depot, Allahabad, 1968).

  63. Kimura, Motoo, Population Genetics, Molecular Evolution, and the Neutral Theory: Selected Papers, (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994).

  64. Lerner, I. Michael, Heredity, Evolution, and Society, (Freeman, San Francisco, 1968).

  65. Levin, Donald A., Hybridization: An Evolutionary Perspective, Benchmark Papers in Genetics, volume 11, (Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Strodsburg, Pennsylvania, 1979).

  66. Levine, Louis, Genetics of Natural Populations: The Continuing Importance of Theodosius Dobzhansky, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1995).

  67. Li, Ching-Chun, Population Genetics, College library of biological sciences series, (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1955 ). This was first published in 1948 as ŇAn Introduction to Population GeneticsÓ, and the 1976 edition has the title ŇFirst Course in Population GeneticsÓ.

  68. Li, Wen-Hsiung, (editor), Stochastic Models in Population Genetics, Benchmark papers in genetics, volume 7, (Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Strodsburg, Pennsylvania, 1977).

  69. Lock, Robert Heath, Recent Progress in theStudy of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution, (Murry, London, 1906, 2nd edition in 1909).

  70. Macfie, Ronald Campbell, Heredity, Evolution, and Vitalism: Some of the Discoveries of Modern Research into These Matters, Their Trend, and Significance, (J. Wright & Sons, Ltd., Bristol, England, 1912).

  71. MacIntyre, Ross J., Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Monographs in Evolutionary Biology series, (Plenum Press, New York, 1985).

  72. Mielke, James H., and Crawford, M. H., (editors), Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics, Methods and theories of anthropological genetics series, (Plenum Press, New York, 1980).

  73. Miyamoto, Michael M., and Cracraft, Joel, (editors), Phylogenetic Analysis of DNA Sequences, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991).

  74. Monad, J., CHANCE & NECESSITY - An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, New York, 1972).

  75. Mortlock, R.P., (editor), The Evolution of Metabolic Function, (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1992). The evolution of DNA is discussed in part of this book.

  76. Nagl, Walter, Endopolyploidy and Polyteny in Differentiation and Evolution: Towards an understanding of Quantitative and Qualitative Variation of Nuclear DNA in Ontogeny and Phylogeny, (Elsevier, New York, 1978).

  77. Neel, James V., Gershowitz, H., Rucknagel, D.L., and Tashian, R.E., (editors), Evolutionary Perspectives and the New Genetics, Progress in Clinical and Biological Research, volume 218, (Liss, New York, 1986).

  78. Nei, Masotoshi, Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, (Columbia University Press, 1987).

  79. Nksbet, John Ferguson, Mariage and Heredity: A View of Psychological Evolution, (Ward and Downey, London, 2nd edition in 1890, 3rd edition in 1903).

  80. OŐMahony, Patrik J., A Question of Life: Its Beginning and Transmission: A Moral Perspective of the New Genetics in the West, the USSR, Poland, and East Germany, (Christian Classics, Westminster, Maryland, 1990).

  81. Parkin, David T., An Introduction to Evolutionary Genetics, A Series of Student Texts in Contemporary Biology, (University Park Press, B altimore, 1979).

  82. Patten, Simon N., Heredity and Social Progress, The History of Hereditarian Thought series, number 23, (Garland Publishers, New York, 1984). this is a book about evolution and genetics. It is a reprint of the 1903 edition, by Macmillan Press, in New York.

  83. Pirchner, Franz, Population Genetics in Animal Breeding, (Plenum Press, New York, 2nd edition in 1983). This is a revised and expanded version, translated from the German Populationsgenetik in der Tierzhuch.

  84. Ponnamperuma, C., and Chela-Flores, J., (editors), Chemical Evolution: The Origin of Life, Studies in chemical evolution and the origin of life, (A. Deepak Publishing, Hampton, Vermont, 1993).

  85. Radfield, Casper Lavater, Control of Heredity: A Study of the Genesis of Evolution and Degeneracy, (Monarch Book Company, Chicago, 1903).

  86. Rasmuson, Marianne, Genetik: fra Darwin till DNA, (Timbro, Stockholm, 1988). In Swedish.

  87. Rattazzi, Mario C., Scandalios,J.G., and Whitt, G.S., (editors), Genetics and Evolution of Isozymes, Isozymes, volume 10, (Liss, New York, 1982).

  88. Real, Leslie, (editor), Ecological Genetics, (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1994). This book is based on the proceedings of a conference, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Evolution, held at Ithaca College, New York, 12-15 June, 1977.

  89. Reanney, D.C., and Chambon, Pierre, (editors), Genome Evolution in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes, International Review of Cytology, volume 93, (Academic Press, Orlando, Florida, 1985).

  90. Reichert, Edward Tyson, A Biochemical Basis for the Study of Problems of Taxonomy, Heredity, Evolution, etc., with Especial Refernce to the Starches and Tissues of Parent-Stock and Hybrid Stocks and the Starches and Hemoglobins of Varieties, Species, and Genera, (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., 1919).

  91. Ribbert, Hugo, Heredity, Disease, and Human Evolution, (The Critic and Guide Company, 1918). This is an English translation from the German book Die Bedeutung der Krankheiten för die Entwicklung der Menscheit.

  92. Robinson, Gloria, A Prelude to Genetics: Theories of a Material Substance of Heredity, Darwin to Weismann, (Coranodo Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1979).

  93. Roff, Derek A., Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics, (Chapman and Hall, New York, 1997).

  94. Seward, Albert Charles, Darwin and Modern Science: Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Origin of the Species, (University Press, Cambridge, 1909).

  95. Stebbins, George Ledyard, Darwin to DNA, Molecules to Humanity (W.H. Freeman and Company, San Fransisco, 1982).

  96. Thompson, Adell, Biology, Zoology, and Genetics: Evolution Model vs. Creation Model, (University Press of America, Washington, D.C., 1983).

  97. Thompson, Elizabeth, Heredity: Its Relations to Human Development, Correspondance between Elizabeth Thompson and Loring Moody, (The Institute of Heredity, Boston, 1882).

  98. Walker, Charles Edward, Evolution and Heredity: Theories and Problems, (A. & C. Black, Ltd., London, 1936).

  99. Wallace, Bruce, Basic Population Genetics, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1981).

  100. Wiesser, Wolfgang, (editor), Die Evolution der Evolutionstheorie: von Darwin zur DNA, (Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 1994).

  101. Woodruff, Ronny C., and Thompson, James N., Mutation and Evolution, Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution, volume 7, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1998).

  102. Woodward, Dow O., and Woodward, Val W., Concepts of Molecular Genetics: Information Flow in Genetics and Evolution, McGraw-Hill series in population biology, (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997).

Forensic DNA Testing & Legal Issues

  1. Andrews, Lori B., Medical Genetics: A Legal Frontier, (American Bar Foundation, Chicago, 1987).

  2. Annas, George J., and Elias, Sherman, (editors), Gene Mapping: Using Law and Ethics as a Guide, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992).

  3. Atchison, Bentley A., and Georgalis, Anna M., DNA Profiling: A Review of the Techniques and Interpretation of DNA Testing, (Leo Cussen Institute, Melborne, 1990).

  4. Ballantyne, Jack, Sensabaugh, George, and Witkowski, Jan A., DNA Technology and Forensic Science (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York,1989).

  5. Berghaus, G., (editor), DNA-technology and Its Forensic Application, based on a symposium held during the 69th Congress of the German Society of Legal Medicine, on 13-14 September, 1990, (Springer-Verlag, New York,1991).

  6. Billings, Paul R., (editor), DNA on Trial: Genetic Identification and Criminal Justice, This book is based on a symposium held at the 1991 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Plainview, New York, 1992).

  7. Burke, Terry, (editor), DNA Fingerprinting: Approaches and Applications, Selected papers presented at the First International Symposium on DNA Fingerprinting, held in Bern, Switzerland, 1-3 October, 1990, (Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, 1991).

  8. Butzel, Henry M., Genetics in the Courts, Studies in Health and Human Services, volume 9, (E. Mellen Press, Lewiston, New York, 1987).

  9. Chadwick, Derek, (editor), Human Genetic Information: Science, Law, and Ethics, Ciba Foundation Symposium, number 149, (Wiley, New York, 1990).

  10. Chadwick, Ruth, Levitt, Mairi, and Shickle, Darren, The Right to Know, and the Right Not to Know, (Ashgate, Brookfield, Vermont , 1997). This is a book about genetic testing.

  11. Coleman, Howard, and Swenson,Eric, DNA in the Courtroom: A Trial Wathcer's Guide, (GeneLex Press, Seattle, Washington, 1st Edition, 1994).

  12. Doherty, Peter, and Sutton, Agneta, (editors), Man-Made Man: Ethical and Legal Issues in Genetics, (Open Air, Dublin, Ireland , 1997).

  13. Easteal, Simon, McLeod,Neil, and Reed, Ken, DNA Profiling: Principles, Pitfalls, and Potential - A Handbook for the Legal, Forensic, and Law Enforcement Professions, (Harwood Academic Publishers, Philadelphia, 1991).

  14. Elias, Sherman, and Annas, George J., Reproductive Genetics and The Law, (Year Medical Publishers, Chicago, 1987).

  15. Epplen, Jörg T., and Lubjuhn, Thomas, DNA Profiling and DNA Fingerprinting, Methods and Tools in Bioscience and Medicine, (Birkhauser Verlag, Boston, 1999).

  16. Evett, Ian W., and Weir, Bruce S., Interpreting DNA Evidence: Statistical Genetics for Forensic Scientists, (Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Mass., 1998).

  17. Farley, Mark A., and Harrington, James J., (editors), Forensic DNA Technology, (Lewis Publishers, Chelsa, Michigan, 1991).

  18. Freedman, Warren, Legal Issues in Biotechnology and Human Reproduction, (Quorum Books, New York, 1991).

  19. Glasner, Peter, and Rothman, Harry, (editors), Genetic Imaginations: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Human Genome Research, Avebury Series in Philosophy, (Ashgate, Brookfield, Vermont, 1998).

  20. Grubb, Andrew, and Pearl, David S., Blood Testing, AIDS and DNA Profiling: Law and Policy, Family law guide practice series, (Jordan and Sons, Bristol, England, 1990).

  21. Inman, Keith, and Rudin, Norah, An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis, (CRC Press, BocaRaton, 1997).

  22. Jarvik, Lissy, F., and Sperber, Michael A., Psychiatry and Genetics: Ethical, and Legal Considerations, (Basic Books, New York, 1976).

  23. Kirby, Lorne T., DNA Fingerprinting: An Introduction, Breakthroughs in Molecular Biology, (W.H. Freeman, New York, 1992).

  24. Knoppers, Bartha Maria, (editor) Human DNA: Law and Policy, International and Comparative Perspectives, Proceedings of the First International Conference on DNA Sampling and Human Genetic Research: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Aspects, held in Montreal, Canada, 6-8 September, 1996, (Kluwer Law International, Boston, 1997).

  25. Krawczak, Michael, and Schmidtke, Joerg, DNA Fingerprinting, The Medical Perspective Series, (Bios Scientific Publishers, New York, 1st edition was published in 1994, 2nd edition, 1998).

  26. Lee, Henry C., and Gaensslen, Robert E., (editors), DNA and Other Polymorphisms in Forensic Science, Advances in Forensic Sciences, (Year Book Medical Publishers, Chicago, 1991).

  27. Levy, H., And the Blood Cried Out : A Prosecutor's Spellbinding Account of DNA's Power to Free or Convict, (Reprint Edition, Mass Market Paperback, Published by Avon press, New York, 1997).

  28. Lincoln, Patrick J., and Thomson, Jim, (editors), Forensic DNA Profiling Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology, volume 98, (Human Press, Totowa, New Jersey, 1998).

  29. Martin, Robert D., Dixson, A.F., and Wickings, E.J., (editors), Paternity in Primates: Genetic Tests and Theories, (Karger, New York, 1992). This book is based on the Schultz-Biegert Symposium, held in Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland, on 16-20 September, 1991.

  30. McLean, Sheila, A.M., (editor), Contemporary Issues in Law, Medicine, and Ethics, (Dartmouth, Brookfield, Vermont, 1996). One of the chapters is entitled "Biotechnology and Intellectual Property: A Marriage of Inconvience?"

  31. Milunsky, Aubrey, and Annas, George J., (editors), Genetics and the Law, (Plenum Press, New York , 1975, 2nd volume in 1980, 3rd volume in 1985). One of the chapters is entitled "Just When You Thought it was Safe: an Update on the Risks of Recombinant DNA Technology", and there is another chapter about mapping the human genome.

  32. Mones, P., Stalking Justice; The Dramatic True Story of the Detective Who First Used DNA Testing(Published by Pocket Books, New York, 1995). This is about a serial killer near Richmond, Virginia, who eventually was caught, and the DNA evidence was used to send him to the electric chair in 1994.

  33. Murphy, Timothy F., and Lappe, Marc A., (editors), Justice and the Human Genome Project, (Univesity of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1994).

  34. Murray, Thomas H., The Genome, Ethics, and the Law: Issues in Genetic Testing, AAAS-ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, AAAS Committee on Scientific Responsibility, (American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. , 1992).

  35. Pena, Sergio D.J., (editor), DNA Fingerprinting: State of the Science, Selected Papers from the Second International Conference on DNA Fingerprinting, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in November, 1993, (Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, 1993).

  36. Peters, Ted, (editor), Genetics: Issues of Social Justice, The Pilgrim Library of Ethics, (Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 1998).

  37. Piper, Margaret, and Unger, Elizabeth R., Nucleic Acid Probes: A Primer for Pathologists, (ASCP Press, Chicago, 1989).

  38. Reed, Sheldon C., A Law for Human Genetics, (Published for the Dight Institute by the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1959). This book also contains two discourses by Pope Pius XII.

  39. Reilly, Philip, Genetics, Law, and Social Policy, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977).

  40. Robertson, James, Ross, Alistair M., and Burgoyne, Leigh Alexander, (editors), DNA in Forensic Science: Theory, Techniques, and Applications, Ellis Horwood series in forensic science, (Ellis Horwood, New York, 1990).

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  41. Rothstein, Mark A., (editor), Legal and Ethical Issues Raised by the Human Genome Project, (Health, Law and Policy Institute, University of Houston, Texas, 1991). This book is based on the proceedings of a conference in Houston, Texas, 7-9 March, 1991.

  42. Santos, Miguel A., Genetics and ManŐs Future: Legal, Social, and Moral Implications of Genetic Engineering, (Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1981). This book discusses eugenics and genetic engineering, amongst other topics.

  43. Smith, George Patrick, Genetics, Ethics, and the Law, New Studies on Law and Society, (Associated Faculty Press, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1981).

  44. Sterckx, Sigrid (editor), Biotechnology, Patents, and Morality, (Ashgate, Brookfield, Vermon , 1997). This book is based on the proceedings of an International Worksho, "Biotechnology, Patents and Morality: Towards a Consensus", held in Ghent, Belgium, 17-19 January, 1996.

  45. Teichler-Zallen, D., Does It Run in the Family? A Consumer's Guide to DNA Testing for Genetic Disorders, (Published by Rutgers Univ. Press, Rutgers, New Jersey, 1997). Genetic testing is becoming ever more common, with many more difficult choices as more tests tell us more about ourselves.

  46. Vernon, Julia, and Selinger, Benjamin K., (editors), DNA and Criminal Justice, Proceedings of a Conference, held 30-31 October, 1989, (Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, 1990).

  47. Warnock, Mary, The Human Genome Project: Ethics and Law, The Uses of Philosophy series, (Blackwell, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992).

  48. Weising, Kurt, (editor), DNA Fingerprinting in Plants and Fungi, (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1995).



History of DNA & Heredity

  1. Aldridge, S., The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996).

  2. Bateson, William, and Mendel, Gregor, Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence, (University Press, Cambridge, 1902, 2nd edition 1909, 3rd edition 1913). This includes an English translation of Mendel's original papers on hybridisation.

  3. Beadle, G. and Beadle, M., THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE - An Introduction to the Science of Genetics, (Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1966). This is a good overview of genetics, the discovery of DNA, and the "breaking of the [genetic] code". It was written about 10 years after George Beadle had won the Nobel prize.

  4. Berg, Kaare, (editor), Medical Genetics: Past, Present, and Future, Progress in Clinical and Biological Research, volume 177, (Liss, New York, 1985). This book is based on the proceedings of a symposium organised by the Sig. K. Thoresen Fund and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, held in Oslo, Norway, 23-25 August, 1984.

  5. Bragg, M., and Gardiner, R., On Giant's Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries, from Archimedes to DNA, (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1998). This is an excellent book, based on a series from the BBC, which includes interviews of Jim Watson about DNA. I think the book is well-written and quite fun to read, as well as informative.

  6. Cairns,J., Stent,G.S., Watson,J.D., editors, Phage and The Origins of Molecular Biology , (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, 1966).

  7. Caplan, Arthur L., (editor), When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust, (Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey, 1992). This book is about eugenics. One of the chapters is entitled "The Human Genome Project in Perspective: Confronting Our Past to Protect Our Future".

  8. Carlson, E.A. THE GENE: A Critical History , (W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1966).

  9. Chambers, Donald A., DNA: The Double Helix - Perspective and Prospective at Forty Years, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, volume 758, (New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, 1995). This book is from the proceedings of a conferenceheld in Chicago, Illinois, on 13-16 October, 1993.

  10. Chargaff, Erwin, Essays on Nucleic Acids, (Elsevier, New York, 1963).

  11. Colin, Edward Cecli, Elements of Genetics: Mendel's Laws of Heredity, with Special Applications to Man, (The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, 1941, 3rd edition published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1956).

  12. Cook-Deegan,R., The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1996). I reviewed this book for Bios magazine, and also used this review as a topic for a Religion & Philosophy Colloquium Disscussion in December of 1997. Link to the web page for the review.

  13. Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, Sir Francis Galton and the Study of Heredity in the Nineteenth Century, (University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1973). This is a reprint of Ruth Cowan's Thesis on the history of eugenics.

  14. Crick, F. WHAT MAD PURSUIT - A Personal View of Scientific Discovery, (Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1988). I used a quote from this book in the introduction to my thesis:

    15. "Really the ideas needed to grasp the structure [of the double helix] are, if properly present, ridiculously easy, since they do not violate common sense, as quantum mechanics and relativity do. I believe that there is a good reason for the simplicity of the nucleic acids. They probably go back to the origin of life, or very close to it. At that time mechanisms had to be fairly simple or life could not have started."

  15. Darden, Lindley, Theory Change in Science: Strategies from Mendelian Genetics, Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology, (Oxford University Press, 1991).

  16. Dobzhansky, Th., Genetics and the Origin of Species (Morningside Heights: Columbia University Press, New York, 1941). In this edition, Dobzhansky further links Darwinian evolution to Mendellian genetics (see Fisher, 1930) - Dobzhansky's book was important for establishing this idea in the US.

  17. Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, Heredity and the Nature of Man, (Harcourt, Brace, & World, New York, 1964).

  18. Dobzhansky, Theodosius G., and Lewontin, R.C., Dobzhansky's Genetics of Natural Populations, volumes I through XLIII, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1981).

  19. Dubos, Rene' J., The Professor, The Institute, and DNA, (Rockerfeller University Press, New York, 1976). This book is about Avery Oswald (1877 - 1955).

  20. Dubuis, Benoit, Recombinant DNA and Biological Warfare (Institue för Militaerische Sicherheitstechnik, Eidgenoessiche Technische Hochschule, Zurich, 1994).

  21. Dunn, L.C., Genetics in the 20th Century - Essays of the Progress of Genetics During Its First 50 years (The MacMillan Company, New York, 1951).

  22. Dyson, Freeman J., The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1999).

  23. Eysenck, H. J., Personality, Genetics, and Behavior: selected papers, (Praeger, New York, 1982).

  24. Fedoroff, Nina, and Botstein, David, (editors), The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock's Ideas in the Century of Genetics, (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1992).

  25. Fisher, R.A., The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1930). This is the first link between Mendellian genetics and Darwinian evolution, even though both of Darwin and Mendell published around the same time (1850's to 1860's). Francois Jacob (1973, see below) makes a strong argument that the two ideas were not really deemed compatible in the late 1800's, and it was not until the beginning of this century that Mendell's genes could be considered as a valid mechanism for explaining evolution.

  26. Fisher, Ronald A., Darwin, Leopard, and Bennett, J.H., Natural Selection, Heredity and Eugenics: Including Selected Correspondance of R. A. Fisher with Leonard Darwin and others, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1983).

  27. Friedberg, Errol C., Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms, (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Plainview, New York, 1997).

  28. Friedman, Meyer, and Friedland, Gerald W., Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries, (Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1998). The last chapter is about Maurice Wilkins and DNA.

  29. Friedman, Sharon M., Dunwoody, Sharon, and Rogers, Carol L., (editors), Scientists and Journalists:ReportingScience as News, (Free Press, New York, 1986). There is a chapter on "How to Kill a Controversy: The Case of Recombinant DNA".

  30. Friedmann, Theodore, (editor), The Development of Human Gene Therapy, Cold Spring Harbor monograph series, monograph 36, (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1999).

  31. Freifelder, David, (editor) The DNA Molecule: Structure and Properties: Original Papers, Analyses, and Problems, A series of books in biology, (Freeman, San Fransisco, 1978).

  32. Fujimura, Joan H., Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996).

  33. Greenfield, Theodore J., Variation, Heredity, and Scientific Explanation in the Evolutionary Theories of Four American neo-Lamarckians, 1867-1897, (U.M.I. Dissertation Information Service, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988).

  34. Gribbin, J. In Search of the Double Helix - Quantum Physics & Life, (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1985). This book traces the influence of quantum mechanics on molecular biology. It is written for the "non-specialist", and offers a different perspective on the history of DNA. Obviously, this is from a very reductionistic point of view. While I personally think that you cannot explain ALL of biology from a reductionistic point of view, I do think this approach has been quite successful in many applications - and this book is both an explanation of the approach, as well as a look at its success.

  35. Grobstein, Clifford, A Double Image of the Double Helix - The Recombinant-DNA debate (W.H.Freeman & Company, San Francisco, 1979).

  36. Hackel, Emmanuel, (editor), Human Genetics 1984: A Look at the Last 10 years, and the Next Ten, (American Association of Blood Banks, Arlington, Virginia, 1985).

  37. Hackel, Emanuel, (editor), Human Genetics 1994: A Revolution in Full Swing, (American Association of Blood Banks, Bethesda, Maryland, 1994).

  38. Hall, S.S., INVISIBLE FRONTIERS - The Race to Synthesise a Human Gene (Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, Redmond, Washington, USA, 1987). The "gene" referred to is, (of course) the insulin gene, and this reads a bit like Watson's gossipy "double helix", but this book is NOT written by one of one of the main characters. However, there is lots of detailed information that makes it quite a good read.

  39. Harwood, Jonathan, Styles of Scientific Thought: The German Genetics Community, 1900-1933, Science and its Conceptual Foundations series, (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993).

  40. Henslow, George, The Heredity of Acquired Characters in Plants, (J. Murray, London, 1908).

  41. Henig, Robin M., The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics, (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2000).

  42. Hershey, A.D., The Bacteriophage Lambda (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1971).

  43. Hunt, Tim, Prentis, Steve, and Tooze, John, (editors), DNA Makes RNA Makes Protein, Papers reprinted from the journal Trends in Biochemical Sciences, (Elsevier Biomedical Press, New York, 1983).

  44. Huxley, Julian, Heredity, East and West: Lysenko and the World of Science, (Schuman, New York, 1949). See also the books by Medvedev and Lysenko. I think this is the same as "Soviet Genetics and World Science, Lysenko and the Meaning of Heredity", published by Chatto & Windus, in London, also in 1949.

  45. Jacob, F. The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity, (Vintage Books, New York, 1973). This book is an English translation of the French La logique du vivant. This is an excellent historical account of the development of the idea of genes (and DNA) as the source of hereditary units. He traces the history of ideas, in terms of the overall scientific point of view at various times in history. Basically, Jacob proposes that, although Darwin and Mendell were contemporaries, the time was not right for acceptance of Mendellian genetics as the form of Darwinian evolution. He argues that the development of statistical mechanics, and the concept of "negative entropy" (e.g., the universe is running down, or becoming more random, and that it takes energy to prevent things from becoming more disorganised - thus life requires energy to fight the tendency towards decay) were necessary requirements for the acceptance of the "randomness" of the assortment of genes. Thus he strongly relates developments in the physical sciences to ideas in biology.

  46. Judson, H.F. The Eighth Day of Creation - Makers of the Revolution in Biology, (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1979; an expanded edition of this has been published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in 1996). This is a comprehensive treatise (686 pages!), detailing the work leading up to, and past the discovery of the double helix. It is a wonderful historical account of the development of molecular biology, and also is a good source for gaining a basic understanding of the underlying principles of the concepts. Unfortunately, it is now a bit dated, but still nonetheless a good "starting point".

  47. Kelves, Daniel J., In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, (Knopf, New York, 1985, 2nd edition 1995).

  48. Kelves, D.J., and Hood, L., editors, "THE CODE OF CODES - Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project", (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992).

  49. Kendrew, J.C., The Thread of Life - An Introduction to Molecular Biology (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967). This is a thin book that gives a good, plain explanation of the "recent discoveries" of the structure of DNA and proteins. The explanation of how to interpret X-ray diffraction patters is especially nice.

  50. Klein, Aaron E., Thread of Life: Genetics from Aristotle to DNA, (Published for the American Museum of Natural History, by th Natural History Press, Garden City, New York, 1970).

  51. Kornberg, Arthur, Enzymatic Synthesis of DNA, CIBA Lectures in Biochemistry, (Wiley, New York, 1961).

  52. Kornberg, Arthur, DNA Synthesis (Freeman, San Fransisco, 1974, 2nd edition 1980).

  53. Lagerkvist, Ulf, DNA Pioneers and Their Legacy, Part of this book was from an earlier Swedish edition, (Yale University Press, 1998).

  54. Lewis, Kenneth Roderick, and John, Bernard, The Matter of Mendelian Heredity, (Churchill, London, 1964, 2nd edition in 1972).

  55. Lindee, M. Susan, Mutation, Radiation, and Species Survival: The Genetics Studies of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commision in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, (U.M.I. Dissertation Information Service, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1990).

  56. Ludovici, Laurence James, Links of Life: the Story of Heredity, (Putnam, New York, 1962).

  57. Macfie, Ronald Campbell, Heredity, Evolution, and Vitalism: Some of the Discoveries of Modern Research into These Matters, Their Trend, and Significance, (J. Wright & Sons, Ltd., Bristol, England, 1912).

  58. Marquardt, H., Genetic Engineering, its Applications and Limitations, (Duttweiler Institute, Zü Switzerland , 1974). This includes a chapter entitled: "Genetics: A Historical Survey, from Natural Selection to DNA".

  59. McCarty,Maclyn, The Transforming Principle - Discovering that Genes are made of DNA, (W.W.Norton & company, New York, 1985) - Although this book was written more recently, it is an excellent history of the research that was going on in the early 1940's. I would strongly recommend the reading of his text.

  60. Medvedev, Zhores A. The Rise and Fall of T.D. LYSENKO, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1969). I think this is an important book for several different reasons. First, it is well-written, and tells a nice story about the history of genetics. Perhaps more importantly, it also warns of what can happen when the government tries to control scientific thought. In this particular instance, the government was the Soviet Union, under Stalin. I am told that the communist Chinese still do not officially believe in Mendellian genetics, and that they must be "careful" when they talk about DNA - many government officials consider this as "bourgeoisie capitalistic ideas". See also the book on "heredity and its variability" written by Lysenko.

  61. Mendelsohn, E. (editor), Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1984). One of the chapters in this book is entitled: "Frankenstein at Harvard": The Public Politics of Recombinant DNA Research".

  62. Menditto, Joseph, and Kirsch, Debbie, Genetic Engineering, DNA, and Cloning: A Bibliography in The Future of Genetics, (Whitson Publishing Company, Troy, New York, 1983). This is a good resource book for the early history of biotechnology. There are more than 8000 references to journal articles!

  63. Mertens, Thomas Robert, Human Genetics: Readings on the Implications of Genetic Engineering, (Wiley, New York, 1975).

  64. Monad, J., CHANCE & NECESSITY - An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, New York, 1972).

  65. Mones, P., Stalking Justice; The Dramatic True Story of the Detective Who First Used DNA Testing(Published by Pocket Books, New York, 1995). This is about a serial killer near Richmond, Virginia, who eventually was caught, and the DNA evidence was used to send him to the electric chair in 1994.

  66. Morgan, Joan, and Whelan, W.J., (editors), Recombinant DNA and Genetic Experimentation, (Pergamon Press, New York , 1989). This book contains papers presented at a Conference on Recombinant DNA, organized by the committee on Genetic Experimentation and the Royal Society of London, 1-4 April, 1979. There is a good chapter on "Historical Perspectives on the Recombinant DNA Controversy", by C. Weiner.

  67. Morgan, Thomas Hunt, Heredity and Sex, Columbia University Lectures series, The Jesup Lectures, 1913, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1913).

  68. Morgan, T.H., The Physical Basis of Heredity, (J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1919). In this book, Morgan proposes the idea that perhaps these chromosomes that he observes in Drosophila, might contain the genetic material. This is the work for which he received the Nobel prize, more than a decade later!

  69. Morgan, Thomas Hunt, Sturtevant, A.H., Muller, H.J., and Bridges, Calvin B., The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity, (H. Holt and Company, 1923).

  70. Morgan, Thomas Hunt, Bridges, Calvin B., and Sturtevant, Alfred H., The Genetics of Drosophila, Genes, Cells, and Organisms series, number 4, (Garland Publishing, New York, 1988, originally published in 1925).

  71. Mueller-Hill, B., The lac Operon: A Short History of a Genetic Paradigm(Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996). This is an excellent book about three views of the lac operon - the "classic" view that is in all the text books, a description of all the WRONG ideas about the lac operon, and finally a more detailed look at the structural biology involved in regulation of the lac operon. Highly recommended reading.

  72. Nelkin, Dorothy, and Lindee, M.Susan, The DNA Mystique : The Gene As a Cultural Icon (W H Freeman &Co., San Fransisco, 1996). This book was written by two sociologists. I thought some of their points were interesting, but I was a bit dissapointed with their lack of understanding of the science. Having said that, I think that this book is perhaps a quite good discussion of what SOCIETY at large thinks of DNA, which can be different from what is the mindset within the scientific community.

  73. Oliver, Clarence P., The Collection of Records in the Study of Human Heredity by Clarence P. Oliver, (Published for the Dight Institute by the University of Minnesota Press, Mineapolis, 1945).

  74. OŐMahony, Patrik J., A Question of Life: Its Beginning and Transmission: A Moral Perspective of the New Genetics in the West, the USSR, Poland, and East Germany, (Christian Classics, Westminster, Maryland, 1990).

  75. Patten, Simon N., Heredity and Social Progress, The History of Hereditarian Thought series, number 23, (Garland Publishers, New York, 1984). this is a book about evolution and genetics. It is a reprint of the 1903 edition, by Macmillan Press, in New York.

  76. Paul, Diane B., Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to Present, (Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 1995).

  77. Peacocke, Arthur R., and Drysdale, Robert B., The Molecular Basis of Heredity, (Plenum Press, New York, 1967).

  78. Portugal, Franklin H., and Cohen, Jack S., A Century of DNA: A History of the Discovery of the Structure and Function of the Genetic Substance, (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1978).

  79. Ptashne, Mark A Genetic Switch - Phage l and Higher Organisms (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1992: 2nd edition). This is an EXCELLENT text, in terms of "structure function" relationships. By understanding gene expression and regulation in a very simple "organism" (a small bacteriophage), much insight is given into how DNA functions in animals and plants.

  80. Raacke, Ilse Dorothea, Molecular Biology of DNA and RNA: An Analysis of Research Papers, (Mosby, St. Louis, 1971).

  81. Rasmuson, Marianne, Genetik: fra Darwin till DNA, (Timbro, Stockholm, 1988). In Swedish.

  82. Saha, Margaret S., Carl Correns and An Alternative Approach to Genetics: The Study of Heredity in Germany between 1880 and 1930, (University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1984).

  83. Sandler, Iris Levine, Pierre Louis Moreau De Maupertuis - A Precursor of Mendelian Genetics?, An Inquiry into the Biological Ideas of Maupertuis, the Mendelian Principles of Heredity and the Nature of the Precursor, (University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981).

  84. Sayre, A., Rosalind Franklin and DNA, (W.H. Norton & Company, 1st edition, 1975, 2nd edition to be published in July, 2000, ).

  85. Schrödinger, E. WHAT IS LIFE & MIND and MATTER , (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1944). This is the famous book that inspired Crick when he was trying to solve the structure of the DNA helix. Schrödinger makes some predictions about the nature of the genetic material (at the time thought to be PROTEIN (not DNA!), but his predictions turned out to be very true). He discusses in detail the hypothesis (of Max Delbrück) that the genetic information might be stored in the form of a "code" - and uses Morse code as an example. Here are a few quotes:

    86. "...Consequently, we may safely assert that there is no alternative to the molecular explanation of the hereditary substance..."
    "We shall assume the structure of a gene to be that of a huge molecule, capable only of discontinuous change, which consists in a rearrangement of the atoms and leads to an isomeric molecule. The rearrangements may affect only a small region of the gene, and a vast number of different rearrangements are possible."

  86. Schull, William J., and Chakroborty, Ranajit, (editors), Human Genetics: A Selection of Insights, Benchmark Papers in Genetics, volume 10, (Dowden, Hutchinson, & Ross, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1979).

  87. Seward, Albert Charles, Darwin and Modern Science: Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Origin of the Species, (University Press, Cambridge, 1909).

  88. Sheldon, Krimsky, Genetic Alchemy: TheSocial History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy, (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1982).

  89. Shine, Ian, and Wrobel, Sylvia, Thomas Hunt Morgan: Pioneer of Genetics, (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1976).

  90. Sinsheimer, R.L. The Strands of a LIFE - The Science of DNA and the Art of Education, (University of California Press, Berleley, 1994). Sinsheimer started his studies of DNA structures in the 1940s, and this autobiography offers a unique glimpse into the development of "molecular biology". This is a good book, although I had hoped there would have been more details about some of his work with DNA - the last half of the book is about his adminstrative roles at Caltech and the University of California, Santa Cruz. However, there IS a small bit towards the end of the book about the origins of the human genome project, which I found quite interesting. Overall the book was a good read, with a broad range of subject material covered.

  91. Slater, Eliot, Gottesman, Irving I., and Shields, James, Man, Mind, and Heredity: Selected Papers of Eliot Slater on Psychiatry and Genetics, (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1971).

  92. Sloan, Phillip R., Controlling Our Destinites: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project, Studies In Science and the Humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, volume 5, (University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiania, 1997).

  93. Stebbins, George Ledyard, Darwin to DNA, Molecules to Humanity (W.H. Freeman and Company, San Fransisco, 1982).

  94. Thomson, John Arthur, HEREDITY , Progressive Science Series, (R.V. Coleman, National Book Buyer's Service, New York, 1907, 2nd edition in 1912, 3rd edition in 1919, 5th edition, thoroughly revised, in 1926). This is an interesting view of genetics, BEFORE Mendell's work had been linked to (Darwinian) evolution, and (of course) long before anybody knew about genes and DNA.

  95. Tiley, Nancy A., Discovering DNA: Meditations on Genetics and A History of Science, (Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1983).

  96. Tudge, Colin, The Engineer in the Garden: Genes and Genetics -- From the Idea of Heredity to theCreation of Life, (Hill and Wang, New York, 1995).

  97. Voeller, Bruce R., The Chromosome Theory of Inheritance: Classic Papers in Development and Heredity, (Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1968).

  98. Wagner, Robert F., Lawrence, Susan C., and Fales, Evan, (editors), Genes and Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Modern Genetics, (University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1994).

  99. Wagner, Robert P., (editor), Genes and Proteins, Benchmark Papers in Genetics, volume 2, (Dowden, Hutchinson, & Ross, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1975).

  100. Watson, James D. Molecular Biology of the Gene, (W.A. Benjamin, Inc., New York, 1965, 2nd edition 1971, 3rd edition 1978, 4th edition 1987). This is the first edition of the "classic" textbook on molecular biology. At the time it was written, the genetic code was just being completely deciphered.

  101. Watson, James D. The Double Helix, (W.A. Benjamin, Inc., New York, 1968, the "Norton Critical Edition" of this was published in 1980, edited by Gunther Stent, with reprints of some of the original papers.). This is a fun, very readable, "gossipy" account of the discovery of the DNA double helix. Of course, it is very biased, but nonetheless it makes good reading, and is very insightful into the personalities and politics involved in solving the basic structure of DNA.

  102. Watson, J.D. and Tooze, J., THE DNA STORY - A Documentary History of Gene Cloning (W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1981). This is kind of like a "scrapbook", with newspaper clippings, old letters, and lots of interesting stories about the beginning of genetic engineering.

  103. Webb, Robert N., Gregor Mendel and Heredity, Immortals of Science, (Watts, New York, 1963).

  104. Wills, Christopher, Exons, Introns, and Talking Genes: The Science Behind the Human Genome Project, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992).

  105. Ycas, M., THE BIOLOGICAL CODE (Frontiers of Biology, volume 12) (North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969).

  106. Zilinskas, Raymond A., and Zimmerman, Burke K., (editors), The Gene-Splicing Wars: Reflections on the Recombinant DNA Controversy, Issues in Science and Technology Series, (Macmillan, New York, 1986).



Human Genetics

  1. Addison, Gerald M., (editor), Practical Developments in Inherited Metabolic Disease: DNA Analysis, Phenylketonuria, and Screening for congenital Adrenal Hyperlasia, (MTP Press, Boston, 1986). This book is based on a meeting of the Society of the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism, held in Liverpool, England, in 1985.

  2. Adolph, Kenneth W. (editor), Human Molecular Genetics, Methods in Molecular Genetics, volume 8, (Academic Press, San Diego, 1996).

  3. Adolph, Kenneth W., (editor), Human Genome Methods, (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1998).

  4. Agius, Emmanuel, and Busuttil, Salvino, (editors), Germ-Line Intervention and Our Responsibilities to Future Generations, (Kluwer Academic, Boston, Massachusetts, 1998).

  5. Ahmad, Fazal, (editor), Advances in Gene Technology: Molecular Biology in the Conquest of Disease, Nucleic Acids symposium series, number 38, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998).

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  6. Ammerman, Albert J., The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations, (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1984).

  7. Andrews, Lori B., Medical Genetics: A Legal Frontier, (American Bar Foundation, Chicago, 1987).

  8. Baker, Penelope, Genetics & Society, The Reference shelf series, volume 67, (H.W. Wilson, New York, 1995).

  9. Ballonoff, Paul A., (editor), Genetics and Social Structure: Mathematical Structuralism in Population Genetics and Social Theory, Benchmark papers in Genetics, volume 1, (Dowden, Hutchinson, & Press, 1974).

  10. Ballonoff, Paul A., and Weiss, Kenneth M., Demographic Genetics, BenchmarkPapers in Genetics, volume 3, (Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1975).

  11. Bartels, Dianne M., LeRoy, B.S., and Caplan, A.L., (editors), Prescribing Our Future: Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling, (Aldine de Gruyter, New York, 1993).

  12. Bartsch, H., Hemminki, K., and O'Neill, I.K., (editors), Methods for Detecting DNA Damaging Agents in Humans: Applications in Cancer Epidemology and Prevention, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1988). This book contains papers from a symposium held in Espoo, Finland, on 2-4 September, 1987.

  13. Bartsch, H., and Singer, Beatrice, (editors), Exocyclic DNA Adducts in Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis, IARC Scientific Publications, number 150, (International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, 1999).

  14. Baskin, Yvonne, The Gene Doctors: Medical Genetics at the Frontier, (W. Morrow, New York, 1984).

  15. Baur, Erwin, Human Heredity, (Alen & Unwin, London, 1931). This is an English translation (by Eden and Cedar Paul), of the book Menshliche Erblichkeitslehre und Rassenhygiene.

  16. Bearn, Alexander G., Motulsky, A., and Childs, B., Genetics of Neurobiological Disorders, Progress in Medical Genetics, volume 6, (Praeger, New York, 1985).

  17. Begleiter, Henri, and Kissin, B., (editors), The Genetics of Alcoholism, Alcohol and alcholism series, number 1, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1997).

  18. Berg, Kaare, (editor), Medical Genetics: Past, Present, and Future, Progress in Clinical and Biological Research, volume 177, (Liss, New York, 1985). This book is based on the proceedings of a symposium organised by the Sig. K. Thoresen Fund and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, held in Oslo, Norway, 23-25 August, 1984.

  19. Berini, Ruth Y., and Kahn,Eva, Clinical Genetics Handbook, (Medical Economics Books, Oradell, New Jersey, 1987).

  20. Beudet, Arthur L., Introduction to Human Biochemical and Molecular Genetics, Human Biochemical and Molecular Genetics series, (McGraw-Hill, Health Professions Division, New York, 1990).

  21. Blum, Kenneth, and Noble, Ernets P., (editors), Handbook of Psychiatric Genetics, (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1997).

  22. Blumenthal, Malcom N., and Björksten, Bengt, (editors), Genetics of Allergy and Asthma: Methods for Investigative Studies, Clinical Allergy and Immunology series, number 10, (Marcel Dekker, New York, 1997).

  23. Bodmer, Walter F., and Cavalli-Sforza, L.L., Genetics, Evolution, and Man, (Freeman, San Francisco, 1976).

  24. Bonne-Tamir, Betsheva, and Adam, Avinoam, (editors), Genetic Diversity Among the Jews: Diseases and Markers at the DNA Level, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1992).

  25. Bouchard, Claude, The Genetics of Obesity, (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1994).

  26. Bouchard, Claude, Malina, Robert M., and Perusse, Louis, Genetics of Fitness and Physical Performance, (Human Kinetics, Champaign, Illinois, 1997).

  27. Bradlow, H. Leon, Fishman, J., and Osborne, Michael P., Cancer: Genetics and the Environment, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, (New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 1997).

  28. Brennan, James R., Patterns of Human Heredity: An Introduction to Human Genetics, (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1985).

  29. Brenner, Sydney, and Hanihara, Kazuro, (editors), The Origin and Past of Modern Humans as Viewed from DNA, Recent Advances in Human Biology, volume 1, (World Scientific Publishers, River Edge, New Jersey, 1995). This book is based on the proceedings from the workshop on the Origin and Past of Homo sapeins sapeins as Viewed from DNA - Theoretical Approach, held in Kyoto, Japan, on 14 - 17 December, 1993.

  30. Brody, Tom, Nutritional Biochemistry, (Academic Press, San Diego, 2nd edition, 1999). There is a good discussion about "Nutrition methodology", including dot blots, molecular cloning, and DNA sequencing.

  31. Carlson, Elof Axel, Human Genetics, (Heath, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1984).

  32. Carson, Hampton Larwence, Heredity and Human Life, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1963).

  33. Carter, Cedric O., Human Heredity, (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England, 1962).

  34. Chen,Harold, Medical Genetics Handbook, (W. H. Green, St. Louis, Missouri, 1988).

  35. Childs, Barton, Molecular Genetics in Medicine, Progress in Medical Genetics, new series, volume 7, (Elsevier, New York, 1988).

  36. Church, William Selby, The Influence of Heredity on Disease, with Special Reference to Tuburculosis, Cancer, and Diseases of the Nervous System, (Longmans, Green, London, 1909).

  37. Clarke, Angus, and Parsons, Evelyn, Culture, Kinship, and Genes: Towards Cross-Cultural Genetics, (St. MartinŐs Press, New York, 1997).

  38. Clark,William R., The New Healers: The Promise andProblems of Molecular Medicine in the Twenty-First Century, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y., 1997).

  39. Clements, Colleen D., Medical Genetics Casebook: A Clinical Introduction to Medical Ethics Systems Theory, Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society, (Humana Press, Clifton, New Jersey, 1982).

  40. Condit, Celeste Michelle, The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates About Human Heredity, (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1999).

  41. Conklin, Edwin Grant, Heredity and Environment in the Development of Man, (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1915-1930). This is a 6 volume set of lectures. The first lecture was given at Northwestern University in February, 1914, and the remaining lectures were given at Princeton University.

  42. Cranor, Carl F., Are Genes Us? The Social Consequences of the New Genetics, (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1994).

  43. Cummings, Michael R., Human Heredity: Principles and Issues, (West Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnessota, 1991).

  44. Cummings, Shelly, (editor), Current Perspectives in Genetics: Insights and Applications in Molecular, Classical, and Human Genetics, (West Publishing Company, Minneapolis/St. Paul, 1996).

  45. Cunningham, Joseph Thomas, Hormones and Heredity: A Discussion of the Evolution of Adaptations and the Evolution of Species, (Constable and Company, Ltd., London, 1921).

  46. Davies, Kay E., and Tilghman, Shirley M., (editors), Genome Maps and Neurological Disorders, Genome Analysis, volume 6, (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Plainview, New York, 1993).

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  48. Dimauro, S., and Wallace, Douglas C., (editors), Mitochondrial DNA and Human Pathology, (Raven Press, New York, 1993).

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The Human Genome Project

  1. Adolph, Kenneth W., (editor), Human Genome Methods, (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1998).

  2. Agius, Emmanuel, and Busuttil, Salvino, (editors), Germ-Line Intervention and Our Responsibilities to Future Generations, (Kluwer Academic, Boston, Massachusetts, 1998).

  3. Bishop, Jerry E., and Waldholz, Michael, Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time -- The Attempt to Map All of the Genes in the Human Body, (Simon and Schuster, New York, N.Y., 1990).

  4. Bishop, Martin J., (editor), Guide to Human Genome Computing, (Academic Press, San Diego, 1994, 2nd edition - 1998).

  5. Bodmer, Walter F., and Robin, McKie, The Book of Man: the Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover our Genetic Heritage, (Scribner, New York, 1995, Oxford Univ. Press, 1997).

  6. Brown, Michael S., Time Bombs in the Human Genome: Exploding Triplets That Cause Disease, Medical Grand Rounds series, (University of Texas Southwestern Center, Dallas, 1993). This book is about the amplification of DNA trinucleotide repeats within the human genome. This can cause diseases such as Myotonic Dystrophy, Fragile X, and Muscular Atrophy.

  7. Cantor, Charles R., and Lim, Hwa A., (editors), Electrophoresis, Supercomputing, and theHuman Genome Project, (World Scientific, Teaneck, New Jersey, 1991). This book is based on the proceedings of the First International Conference on Electrophoresis, Supercomputing, and the Human Genome, held at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 10-13 April, 1990.

  8. Cantor, C.R., and Smith, Cassandra L., GENOMICS: The Science and Technology Behind the Human Genome Project, (Wiley, New York, 1999).

  9. Caplan, Arthur L., (editor), When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust, (Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey, 1992). This book is about eugenics. One of the chapters is entitled "The Human Genome Project in Perspective: Confronting Our Past to Protect Our Future".

  10. Cook-Deegan,R., The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1996). I reviewed this book for Bios magazine, and also used this review as a topic for a Religion & Philosophy Colloquium Disscussion in December of 1997. Link to the web page for the review.

  11. Cooper, Necia Grant, (editor), The Human Genome Project: Deciphering the Blueprint of Heredity, (University Science Books, Nill Valley, California, 1994).

  12. Cutter, Mary Ann G., Drexler, Edward, McCullough, Joseph D., Murray Jeffrey C., Rossiter, Belinda, and Zola, John, Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome Project: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy, (American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1992).

  13. David, Joel, Mapping the Code: the Human Genome Project and The Choices of Modern Science, Wiley science editions, (Wiley, New York, 1990).

  14. Davies, Kay E., and Tilghman, Shirley M., (editors), Genome Maps and Neurological Disorders, Genome Analysis, volume 6, (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Plainview, New York, 1993).

  15. Dyson, Freeman J., The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1999).

  16. Finch, Caleb Ellicot, Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome, The John d. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development, (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1990).

  17. Fletcher, Liz, and Porter, Roy, A Quest for the Code of Life: Genome Analysis at The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, (Wellcome Trust, London, 1997).

  18. Fujiki, Norio, and Macer, Darryl R. J., (editors), Human Genome Research and Society, (Eubios Ethics Institute, Christchurch, 1992). This book is based on the proceedings of the Second International Bioethics Seminar in Fukui-shi, Japan, held on 20-21 March, 1992.

  19. Fujjiki, Norio, and Macer, Darryl J., (editors), Intractable Neurological Disorders, Human Genome Research and Society, (Eubios Ethics Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1994). This book is based on the proceedings of the Third International Bioethics Seminar in Fukui, Japan, held 19-21 November, 1993.

  20. Fujimura, Joan H., Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996).

  21. Glasner, Peter, and Rothman, Harry, (editors), Genetic Imaginations: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Human Genome Research, Avebury Series in Philosophy, (Ashgate, Brookfield, Vermont, 1998).

  22. Haker, Hille, Hearn, R., and Steigleder, K., (editors), Ethics of Human Genome Analysis: European Perspectives, (Attempto Verlag, Tubingen, Germany, 1993).

  23. Hawley, R. Scott, and Mori, Catherine A., The Human Genome: A User's Guide, (Academic Press, San Diego, California, 1999).

  24. Heller, Jan Christian, Human Genome Research and the Challenge of Contingent Future Persons, (Creighton University Press, Omaha, Nebraska, 1996).

  25. Hofestadt, Ralf, and Lim, Hwa, (editors), Molecular Bioinformatics: Sequence Analysis and the Human Genome Project, Berichte aus der Medizinischhen Informatik un Bioinformatik, (Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 1997). This book is based on the proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing.

  26. Jaroff, Leon, The New Genetics, Grand Rounds Press series, (Whittle Direct Books, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1991). This book is about the human genome project.

  27. Jordon, Bertrand, Travelling Around the Human Genome: An In Situ Investigation, Medicine/Sciences selection series, (Editions INSERM, Paris, 1993).

  28. Kelves, D.J., and Hood, L., editors, "THE CODE OF CODES - Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project", (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992).

  29. Kent, Theodore C., Mapping the Human Genome: Reality, Morality, and Deity, (University Press of Americah, Lanham, 1995).

  30. Kilner, John F., Pentz, Rebecca D., and Young, Frank E., (editors), Genetic Ethics: Do the Ends Justify the Genes?", (W.B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1997). This book includes a chapter by Francis Collins, who is currently the director of the Human Genome Project in the U.S.

  31. Kuhse, Helga, and Singer, Peter, (editors), A Companion to Bioethics, (Blackwell, Malden, Massachusetts, 1998). One of the chapters is entitled "Creating and Patenting New Life Forms", and another is about "Mapping the Human Genome".

  32. Lahley, Felissa R., The Genetics Revolution: Implications for Nursing, (American Academy of Nursing, Washington, D.C., 1997). This book is in part about the Human genome project.

  33. Lee, Thomas F., The Human Genome Project: Cracking the Genetic Code of Life, (Plenum Press, New York, 1991).

  34. Lim, Hwa A., (editor), Bioinformatics, Supercomputing, and Complex Genome Analysis, (World Scientific, New Jersey, 1993). This book is based on the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Bioinformatics, Supercomputing, and Genome Analysis, held at St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, on 4-7 June, 1992.

  35. Lim, Hwa A., and Cantor, Charles R., (editors), Bioinformatics and Genome Research, (World Scientific, New Jersey, 1995). This book is based on the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bioinformatics & Genome Research, held in Tallahassee, Florida, on 1-4 June, 1994.

  36. McKusik, Victor A., The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Genome, (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, 1988).

  37. McLaren, Diane J., Human Genome Research: A Review of European and International Contributions, (Medical Research Council, London, 1991).

  38. Mehlman, Maxwell J., and Botkin, Jeffrey R., Access to the Genome: TheChallenge to Equality, (Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 1998).

  39. Milunsky, Aubrey, and Annas, George J., (editors), Genetics and the Law, (Plenum Press, New York , 1975, 2nd volume in 1980, 3rd volume in 1985). One of the chapters is entitled "Just When You Thought it was Safe: an Update on the Risks of Recombinant DNA Technology", and there is another chapter about mapping the human genome.

  40. Murphy, Timothy F., and Lappe, Marc A., (editors), Justice and the Human Genome Project, (Univesity of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1994).

  41. Murray, Thomas H., The Genome, Ethics, and the Law: Issues in Genetic Testing, AAAS-ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, AAAS Committee on Scientific Responsibility, (American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. , 1992).

  42. Murray, Thomas H., Rothstein,R.A., and Murray, R.F.,Jr., (editors), The Human Gennome and the Future of Health Care, (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1996).

  43. Nelson, J. Robert, On the New Frontiers of Genetics and Religion, (W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1994). This book is about the human genome project.

  44. Okamoto, Michio, Fujiki, Norio, and Macer, Darryl R.J., (editors), Protection of the Human Genome and Scientific Responsibility, (Eubios Ethics Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1996).

  45. Postiglione, S. Marianne, and Brungs, Robert, (editors), The Human Genome Project: Proceedings of the ITEST Workshop, (ITEST Faith/Science Press, St. Louis, Missouri, 1993).

  46. Ridley, Matt, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, (Fourth Estate, London, 1999).

  47. Rothstein, Mark A., (editor), Legal and Ethical Issues Raised by the Human Genome Project, (Health, Law and Policy Institute, University of Houston, Texas, 1991). This book is based on the proceedings of a conference in Houston, Texas, 7-9 March, 1991.

  48. Rothstein, Mark A., (editor), Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era, (Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1997).

  49. Sarma, Ramaswamy H., Sarma, Mukti H. Structure & Methods, (Adenine Press, Schenectady, New York, 1990). This is a 3-volume set. v. 1. TheHuman Genome Iniative. v. 2. DNA protein complexes & proteins, and v. 3. DNA & RNA. This book is based on the proceedings from the 6th Conversation in the Discipline Biomolecular Structure Stereodynamics held at the State University of New York at Albany, 6-10 June, 1989.

  50. Segal, Yossi, Human Genome Project in Israel: Research Projects, (Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, 1998).

  51. Shinn, Roger Lincoln, The New Genetics: Challenges for Science, Faith, and Politics, (Moyer Bell, Wakefield, Rhode Island, 1996). This book is about the human genome project.

  52. Sloan, Phillip R., Controlling Our Destinites: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project, Studies In Science and the Humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, volume 5, (University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiania, 1997).

  53. Smith, Douglas W., (editor), Biocomputing: Informatics and Genome Projects, (Academic Press, San Diego, 1994).

  54. Smith, Edward, and Sapp, Walter, (editors), Plain Talk about The Human Genome Project, A Tuskegee University Conference on Its Promises and Perils ... and Matters of Race, (Tuskegee University Press, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1997).

  55. Strachan, T., The Human Genome, Medical Perspective series, (BIOS Scientific Publishers, Oxford, 1992).

  56. Vanderpool, Harold Y., (editor), The Ethics of Research Involving Human Subjects: Facing the 21st Century, (University Publishing Group, Frederick, Maryland, 1996). One of the chapters in this book is entitled "Respecting Human Subjects in Genome Research: A Preliminary Policy Agenda".

  57. Verma, Ram S., The Genome, Frontiers in Molceular and Celluar Biology, (VCH Publishers, New York, N.Y., 1990).

  58. Vial Correa, Juan de Dios, and Sgreccia, Elio, (editors), Human Genome, Human Person, and The Society of The Future, (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Citti del Vaticano, 1999). This book is based on the proceedings of the Fourth Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, held in Vatican City, 23-25 February, 1998.

  59. Warnock, Mary, The Human Genome Project: Ethics and Law, The Uses of Philosophy series, (Blackwell, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992).

  60. Wilkie, Tom, Perilous Knowledge: the Human Genome Project and its Implications, (University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1993).

  61. Wills, Christopher, Exons, Introns, and Talking Genes: The Science Behind the Human Genome Project, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992).

  62. Wingerson, Lois, Mapping Our Genes: The Genome Project and the Future of Medicine, (Dutton, New York, 1990).

  63. Woodhead, Avril D., and Barnhart, Benjamin J., (editors), Biotechnology and the Human Genome: Innovations and Impact, Basic Life Sciences series, (Plenum Press, New York, 1988).

  64. Zlinskas, Raymond A, and Balint, Peter J., (editors), The Human Genome Project and Minority Communities: Ethical, Social, and Political Dilemmas, (Praeger, Westport, Conneticut, 2000).

  65. The Human Genome in Europe: Scientific, Ethical, and Social Aspects, (Academie Royale de Medicine de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1995). This book is based on the proceedings of a conference in Brussels, Palais des academies, 18-19 September, 1995, by the Commission of the European Communities.



The Recombinant DNA Debate

  1. Beers, Roland F., and Bassett, Edward G., (editors), Recombinant Molecules: Impact on Science and Society, (Raven Press, New York, 1977). There are many interesting chapters in this book.

  2. Bennett, David, Glasner, Peter E., and Travis, David, The Politics of Uncertainty: Regulating Recombinant DNA Research in Britain, (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1986).

  3. Birg, Kare, and Tranoy, Knut Erik, (editors), Research Ethics, (Alan R. Liss, New York, 1983). There are a couple of chapters dealing with DNA technology, for example one chapter is entitled "Lessons to be Learned from the Recombinant DNA Controversy".

  4. Bollon, Arthur P., (editor), Recombinant DNA Products: Insulin, Interferon, and Growth Hormone, (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1984).

  5. Caskey, C. Thomas, and White, Raymond l., (editors), Recombinant DNA Applications to Human Disease (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1983). This book is based on the Banbury Conference on Recombinant DNA Applications to Human Disease, held 3-6 October, at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York.

  6. Cheney, Darwin, (editor), Ethical Issues in Research, (University Publishing Group, Frederick, Maryland, 1993). One of the chapters is entitled "The Recombinant DNA Revolution and the Fading of the Concept of "Pure" Science at theRoot of Ethical Issues in Biological Research".

  7. Denniston, Katherine J., and Enquist, Lynn W., (editors), Recombinant DNA Benchmark papers in Microbiology, (Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1981).

  8. Dubuis, Benoit, Recombinant DNA and Biological Warfare (Institue för Militaerische Sicherheitstechnik, Eidgenoessiche Technische Hochschule, Zurich, 1994).

  9. Friedman, Sharon M., Dunwoody, Sharon, and Rogers, Carol L., (editors), Scientists and Journalists:ReportingScience as News, (Free Press, New York, 1986). There is a chapter on "How to Kill a Controversy: The Case of Recombinant DNA".

  10. Fudenberg, H. Hugh, and Melnick, Vijaya L., (editors), Biomedical Scientists and Public Policy, (Plenum Press, New York, 1978). One of the chapters is entitled "Much ado about Recombinant DNA Regulations".

  11. Fugiki, N., Bulyzhenkov, V., and Bankowski, Z., (editors) Medical Genetics and Society, this book is based on the International Panel discussion on Ethics in Medical Genetics, held at the Phoenix Plaza, Fukui, Japan, on 3 August, 1990. (Kugler, New York, NY, 1991). One of the chapters is on "DNA Technology, Neonatal Screening, and Antenatal Diognosis in an Ethical Perspective".

  12. Fujiki, Norio, and Macer, Darryl R. J., (editors), Human Genome Research and Society, (Eubios Ethics Institute, Christchurch, 1992). This book is based on the proceedings of the Second International Bioethics Seminar in Fukui-shi, Japan, held on 20-21 March, 1992.

  13. Grobstein, Clifford, A Double Image of the Double Helix - The Recombinant-DNA debate (W.H.Freeman & Company, San Francisco, 1979).

  14. Hanson, Earl D., (editor), Recombinant DNA Research and the Human Prospect, (American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., 1983). This book is based on a Sesquicentennial Symposium at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, on 4-6 March, 1982.

  15. Holtzman, Neil A., Proceed With Caution: Predicting Genetic Risks in the Recombinant DNA Era, The Johns Hopkins series in contemporary medicine and public health, (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1989).

  16. Jackson, David A., and Stich, Stephen P., (editors), The Recombinant DNA Debate, (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1979). There are several interesting chapters in this book, including one on "Evolution, Epidemiology, and Recombinant DNA".

  17. Lakoff, Sanford A., (editor), Science and Ethical Responsibility (Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1980). This book is based on the proceedings of the U.S. Student Pugwash Conference, held at the University of California, San Diego, 19-26 June, 1979. There is a chapter on "The Recombinant DNA Debate and the Precedent of Leo Szilard".

  18. Lear, John, Recombinant DNA (Crown Publishers, New York, 1978).

  19. Mendelsohn, E. (editor), Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1984). One of the chapters in this book is entitled: "Frankenstein at Harvard": The Public Politics of Recombinant DNA Research".

  20. Milunsky, Aubrey, and Annas, George J., (editors), Genetics and the Law, (Plenum Press, New York , 1975, 2nd volume in 1980, 3rd volume in 1985). One of the chapters is entitled "Just When You Thought it was Safe: an Update on the Risks of Recombinant DNA Technology", and there is another chapter about mapping the human genome.

  21. Morgan, Joan, and Whelan, W.J., (editors), Recombinant DNA and Genetic Experimentation, (Pergamon Press, New York , 1989). This book contains papers presented at a Conference on Recombinant DNA, organized by the committee on Genetic Experimentation and the Royal Society of London, 1-4 April, 1979. There is a good chapter on "Historical Perspectives on the Recombinant DNA Controversy", by C. Weiner.

  22. Nelkon, Dorothy, (editor), Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions, (Sage Publications, Newbury Park, California, 1992). There are several chapters in this book about regulation of recombinant DNA Research.

  23. Porter, Iain H., and Messer, Anne, Recombinant DNA andMedical Genetics (Academic Press, New York, 1983). This book is based on the proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual New York State Health Department Birth Defects Symposium, held 15-16 November, 1982, in Albany, New York.

  24. Richards, John, (editor), Recombinant DNA: Science, Ethics, and Politics, (Academic Press, New York, 1978).

  25. Robbins, Dennis A., Dyer, and Allen R., (editors), Ethical Dimensions of Clinical Medine, (Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1981). One of the chapters is entitled "Recombinant DNA: A Paradigm of the Science-Society Interface.

  26. Sheldon, Krimsky, Genetic Alchemy: TheSocial History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy, (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1982).

  27. Slessin, Louis, Recombinant DNA Research: A Chronology, (MIT, School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge, Mass., 1976).

  28. Watson, J.D. and Tooze, J., THE DNA STORY - A Documentary History of Gene Cloning (W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1981). This is kind of like a "scrapbook", with newspaper clippings, old letters, and lots of interesting stories about the beginning of genetic engineering.

  29. Wilschut, Annette, Gezondheids-en milieurisico's van de industriele to epassing vanDNA recombinant technieken, ( Wetenschapswinkel, Maastricht, 1991). This is a Dutch book about the adverse effects and occupational health of recombinant DNA.

  30. Wulf, Keith M., (editor), Regulation of Scientific Inquiry: Societal Concerns with Research, AAAS Selected Symposia Series, number 37, (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1979). This included a chapter on Recombinant DNA legislation.

  31. Zilinskas, Raymond A., and Zimmerman, Burke K., (editors), The Gene-Splicing Wars: Reflections on the Recombinant DNA Controversy, Issues in Science and Technology Series, (Macmillan, New York, 1986).

  32. Recombinant DNA: Readings from Scientific American, (Freeman, San Francisco, 1978).






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