Reading List

PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE PUBLIC GOOD IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA

READING LIST  


Publications from the President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, D.C.:

• Being Human: Readings from the President's Council on Bioethics,December 2003
• Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness, October 2003
• Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry, July 2002
• Monitoring Stem Cell Research, January 2004
• Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies, March 2004

Bouchey, Heather (with Lawrence Mishel & Jared Bernstein), The State of Working America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.

Bouchey, Heather (with Chauna Brocht, Bethney [Noelle] Gundersen, & Jared Bernstein), Hardships in America: The Real American Story of Working Families. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Cassell , Christine &Field, Marilyn, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. National Academy Press, 1997.

Childs, Barton, Genetic Medicine: The Logic of Disease. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

de Vries, Raymond, (with Leigh Turner, Kristina Orfali, Charles Bosk), The View from Here: Bioethics and Social Science. To be published by Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

Green, Ronald M., The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Meilaender, Gilbert, Bioethics: A Primer for Christians. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdsman Publishing Company, 1996.

Meilaender, Gilbert, Body, Soul and Bioethics. University of Notre Dame Press, 1998.

Meilaender, Gilbert, Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits. University of Notre Dame Press, 2000.

Parens, Erik, Genetic Differences and Human Identities, Hastings Center Report, January-February 2004.

Turner, Leigh, Different Bedrocks, Different Spades: Bioethics, Culture, and Religion. Manuscript available for review.


The Wilson Center gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Hampden-Sydney College
Lectures and Programs Committee in the funding of this symposium.