Readings

Thursday  8/30/01

Introductions 

None 

Tuesday  9/4/01

Human genome project 

Pro:  **Ridley, Genome, 1999.

   Foreword, Intro (pp. 1-10); Ch. 4-6 (pp. 54-90); Ch. 11 (pp. 161-72); Ch. 15 (pp. 206-218); Ch. 18-19 (pp. 243-270); Ch. 21-22 (pp. 286-313). 

Con:  **Hubbard and Wald, Exploding the Gene Myth, 1999. 

   Ch. 5-10 (pp. 58-144); Ch. 12-Afterword (pp. 158-180). 

Thursday 

9/6/01

Eugenics 

**Sloan, Controlling Our Destinies, 2000.   

   Pernick.  Chapter 7.  Defining the Defective:  Eugenics, Esthetics, and Mass Culture in Early Twentieth-Century America (pp. 187-208).   

   Caplan.  Chapter 8.  What’s Morally Wrong with Eugenics? (pp. 209-222). 

   Murphy.  Commentary (on Caplan; pp. 223-228).   

   Kitcher.  Chapter 9.  Utopian Eugenics and Social Inequality (pp. 229-262). 

   Paul.  Commentary (on Kitcher; pp. 263-268).   

Tuesday 

9/11/01

Reproductive technologies 

+Pro:  Silver, 2000.  Reprogenetics:  How Reproductive and Genetic Technologies Will Be Combined to Provide New Opportunities for People to Reach Their Reproductive Goals.  In:  Stock, Gregory and John Campbell (eds.), Engineering the Human Germline, pp. 57-71. 

+Con:  Kass, 1995.  In:  Elshtain, Jean Bethke and J. Timothy Cloyd, The Human Body:  Assault on Dignity. 

Feminist perspective: 

   Elshtain, 1995.  The New Eugenics and Feminist Quandaries. In:  Elshtain, Jean Bethke and J. Timothy Cloyd, The Human Body:  Assault on Dignity, pp. 24-40.   

   Goslinga-Roy, Gillian M., 2000.  Chapter 5.  Body Boundaries, Fiction of the Female Self.  In:  Brodwin, Paul E. (ed.), Biotechnology and Culture. 

   Wilentz, 1995.  The Matter of Baby M.  Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1988.  In: Elshtain, Jean Bethke and J. Timothy Cloyd, The Human Body:  Assault on Dignity, pp. 67-86. 

   Shanley, 1995.  “Surrogate Mothering” and Women’s Freedom:  A Critique of Contracts for Human Reproduction. In:  Elshtain, Jean Bethke and J. Timothy Cloyd, The Human Body:  Assault on Dignity, pp. 87-106. 

   Steinberg, Deborah Lynn, Bodies in glass:  genetics, eugenics, embryo ethics, 1997.  Chapter 1.  Writing recombinant bodies:  the professional genea/logics of IVF, pp. 31-54. 

Thursday 

9/13/01

gene therapy, stem cell research 

Stock, Gregory and John Campbell (eds.), 2000, Engineering the Human Germline. 

   Capecchi.  Human germline gene therapy:  how and why (pp. 31-41). 

   Anderson.  A new front in the battle against disease (pp. 43-48). 

   Mauron et al.  Long-term possibilities and dangers (pp. 117-137). 

   Macer and Cohen.  Regulation and jurisdiction (pp. 139-144). 

AAAS site on stem cell research:  http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/sfrl/projects/stem/main.htm  

Tuesday 

9/18/01

selected by students 

selected by students 

[possibilities:   

 Rothstein, 1999.  Chapter 5.  Behavioral genetic determinism:  Its effects on culture and law. In:  Carson, Ronald A. and Mark A. Rothstein (eds.), Behavioral Genetics:  The Clash of Culture and Biology, pp. 89-115. 

 Andrews, 1999.  Chapter 6.  Predicting and punishing antisocial acts:  How the criminal justice system might use behavioral genetics. In:  Carson, Ronald A. and Mark A. Rothstein (eds.), Behavioral Genetics:  The Clash of Culture and Biology, pp. 116-155.] 

added by students: 

Chapter 2, pp. 12-31 

Part of Chapter 3, pp. 35-36, 48-56 

Chapter 8, pp. 172-186 

Henry, William A., 1993.  Born Gay?  Time, July 26, 1993: 36-39. 

Toufexis, Anastasia, 1993.  Seeking the roots of violence.  Time, April 19, 1993: 52-53. 

Lemonick, Michael D., 1999.  Smart genes?  Time, September 13, 1999: 54-61.