Recommended Reading from Dr. John Gearhart:

Brian Appleyard. Brave New Worlds: Staying human in the next generation. Viking Penguin. 1998

Francis Fukuyama. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY. 2002

Jon Turney. Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture. Yale University Press, New Haven. 1998

Leon R. Kass. Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics. Encounter Books, San Francisco. 2002

Philip Kitcher. Science, Truth, and Democracy. Oxford University Press. 2001

Philip Kitcher. The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster. 1996

James Robert Brown. Who Rules in Science: An opinionated guide to the wars. Harvard University Press. 2001

C.P. Snow. The Two Cultures (The Rede Lecture). Cambridge University Press. 1959

Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan. Mean Genes: From sex to money to food. Taming our primal instincts. Perseus Publishing. 2000

Steven Pinker. The Blank Slate The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Viking. 2002

Gregory Stock. Redesigning Humans: Choosing our Children's Genes. Profile Books. 2002

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