Books:

• Silver, Lee M. (1998).  Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family.  Avon Books.
• Hawley RS and Mori CA (1999).  The Human Genome: A User’s Guide

Reserve book:

• Andrews, Lori B. (1999).  The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology.

Suggested Books for reading groups:

• Becker G.  The elusive embryo.  How Women and Men Approach New Reproductive Technologies.
• Fukuyama F.  Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.
• Gosden, R.  Designing Babies: The Brave New World of Reproductive Technology
• Green, Ronald M. The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy
• Kearney, B.  High-tech conception: A Comprehensive Handbook for Consumers.
• Kolata, G.  Clone: The Road to Dolly.
• Maranto, G. Quest for Perfection: The Drive to Breed Better Human Beings.
• McGee, G.  The Perfect Baby: Parenthood in the New World of Cloning and Genetics
• Morowitz HJ and Trefil JS.  The Facts of Life.
• Pence GE.  Who’s Afraid of Human Cloning?
• Rapp, R.  Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (The Anthropology of Everyday Life).
• Stock, G. Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future
• Walters L. and Palmer JG.  The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy

Articles:

• In vitro Fertilization (IVF)

o Sullivan W. Woman gives birth to baby conceived outside the body.  NY Times 7/26/78
o Restak RM.  Can there be new forms of life before birth? NY Times 7/26/1978
o Mestel R.  Birth by test tube turns 25.  LA Times 7/25/03
o Ryan M.  Countdown to a Baby.  The New Yorker, July 1, 2002.
o Bruni F.  The Gods of fertility: For reproduction doctors, science is the easy part.  NY Times 8/8/1997.
o Kolata G.  Harrowing choices accompany advances in fertility. NY Times 3/10/1998.

• Egg donation and frozen embryos

o Cohen J.  Grade A: The market for a Yale woman’s eggs. Atlantic Monthly Dec 2002.
o Hall CT. The forgotten embryo.  Fertility clinics must store or destroy the surplus that is part of the process,
   San Francisco Chronicle, Aug 20, 2001.
o Weiss R.  400,000 human embryos frozen in US. Washington Post 5/8/03

• Embryo Selection

o Kolata G.  Genetic defects detected in embryos just days old.  NY Times 9/24/1992.
o Grady D. Baby spared mother’s fate after by genetic tests as embryo. NY Times 2/27/2002.

Towner D. and Loewy RS (2002).  Ethics of preimplantation diagnosis for a woman destined to develop early-onset Alzheimer Disease.  J. American Medical Assoc. 287, 1038-40.

Grady D.  Genes, Embryos and Ethics.  NY Times 3/3/02.

Op-Ed.  Not-so-slippery slope.  Washington Post 3/3/02.

o Belkin L.  Getting the Girl.  NY Times Magazine, July 25, 1999
o Belkin L .  The Made-to-Order Savior.  NY Times Magazine July 1, 2001.

• Grady D.  Baby conceived to provide cell transplant for his dying sister.  NY Times 10/4/00

• IVF risks

o Mishra R. Study ties birth defects to in vitro fertilization. Boston Globe 3/8/02.
o Powell K.  Seeds of doubt.  Nature 422, 656-658 (2003).

• Cell differentiation

o T. Maeder:  A few hundred people turned to bone. Atlantic Monthly,  Feb. 1998.

• Cloning

o science

• McLaren A. (2000).  Cloning: Pathways to a Pluripotent Future. Science 288, 1775-80.
• Pennisi E and Vogel G. (2000).  Clones: A Hard Act to Follow. Science 288, 1722-27.
• Jaenisch R and Wilmut I. (2001).  Don’t Clone Humans!  Science 291, 2552.

o ethics and policy

• Shapiro HT.  (1997).  Ethical and Policy Issues of Human Cloning.  Science 277, 195-96.
• Lewontin, R.  The confusion over cloning. in It Aint Necessarily So: The dream of the human genome and other illusions, chapt. 8.
• Kass LR.  The wisdom of repugnance.  The New Republic June 2, 1997, 17-26.  Also at:  http://www.aei.org/shop1/shops/1/4050-0.pdf

o other views

• Kolata G.  Human Cloning: Yesterday’s Never is Today’s Why Not?  NY Times 12/9/97.
• Weiss R. Free to be me: Would-be cloners pushing the debate.  Washington Post 5/12/2002.
• Silver LM.  (2001).  What are clones?  Nature 412, 21.
• Talbot M.  A desire to duplicate.  (“Lab of the Human Clones”) NY Times Magazine Feb 4, 2001.

• Stem Cells

o science:

• Wright SJ (1999).  Human embryonic stem cell research: Science and ethics.  American Scientist 87, 352-61.
• Vogel G. (2000) Stem Cells: New Excitement, Persistent Questions. Science 290, 1672-1674.

o therapeutic cloning, regenerative medicine

Cibelli JB, Lanza RP, and West MD, with Ezzell C. (2002).  The First Human Cloned Embryo.  Scientific American 286, 44-51.

Dunn K.  Cloning Trevor.  Atlantic Monthly June 2002.

Weinberg RA.  Of Clones and Clowns.  Atlantic Monthly June 2002.

o practical considerations, ethics and policy

Shapiro HT (1999).  Ethical dilemmas and stem cell research. Science 285, 206.

Kolata G.  A thick line between theory and therapy.  NY Times 12/18/01.

Wertz DC (2002).  Embryo and stem cell research in the USA: a political history.  Trends in Molecular Medicine 8, 143-146.

o stem cells and and egg cells: new scientific developments

Dennis C (2003).  Chinese fusion method promises fresh route to human stem cells.  Nature 424, 711.

Wade N. Penn. researchers turn stem cells to egg cells.  NY Times 5/2/03

Dennis C (2003).  Synthetic sex cells.  Nature 424, 364-366.

• Gene therapy

• Kolata G.  In a first, gene therapy saves lives of infants. NY Times 4/28/00.
• Grady D and Kolata G Gene therapy used to treat patients with Parkinson’s. NY Times 8/20/03
• Check E (2002).  A tragic setback.  Nature 420, 116-118.

• Germ line gene modification

Kolata G. Geneticists Ask: When, why should humanity genetically alter itself? NY Times 3/21/98

Frankel MS and Chapman AR (2001).  Facing inheritable genetic modifications. Science 292, 1303

Wivel NA and Walters L (1993).  Germ-line gene modification and disease prevention: some medical and ethical perspectives.  Science 262, 533-8.

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