human enhancement and transhumanism - a select bibliography

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Human Enhancement and Transhumanism: A Select

Bibliography

James A. Herrick

Hope College

Human enhancement, Transhumanism and the posthuman

Alexander, Brian. Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion. New York: Basic

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Beyond Cloning: Religion and the Remaking of Humanity. Ed. Ronald Cole-Turner.

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Buchanan, Allen. Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing

Ourselves. New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2011.

Dewdney, Christopher . Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era. New York:

HarperCollins, 1998.

Elliot, Carl. Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream. New

York: W. W. Norton, 2004.

FM -2030 (Fereidoun M. Esfandiary). Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and

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Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology

Revolution. New York: Picador, 2002.

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Garreau, Joel. Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds,

Our Bodies—and What It Means to Be Human. Broadway, 2006.

Gray, Chis Hables. Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age. New York:

Routledge, 2001.

Harris, John. Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.



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Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics,

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Herrick, James A. Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge

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Hughes, James. Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies must Respond to the

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University Press, 2009.

Huxley, Julian. New Bottles for New Wine. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957.

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Condition. Ed. Harold W. Baillie, Timothy K. Casey. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,

2004.

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Penguin, 2006.

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_____ Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares: The Promise and Peril of

Genetic Engineering. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Merrell, Floyd. Sensing Corporeally: Toward a Posthuman Understanding. Toronto:

University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Naam, Ramez. More than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological

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Pepperell, Robert. The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness beyond the Brain.

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Ram Chandra, Vinoth. Subverting Global Myths: Theology and the Public Issues

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Scott, Peter M. Anti-Human Theology: Nature, Technology and the Post-Natural.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.



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Seidel, Asher. Inhuman Thoughts: Philosophical Explorations of Posthumanity.

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.

Stock, Gregory. Redesigning Humans: Choosing our Genes, Changing our Future.

Mariner, 2003.

Transhumanism and its Critics. Ed. Gregory Hansell, William Grassie. Metanexus,2011.

Transhumanism and Transcendence: Christian Hope in an Age of Technological

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Waters, Brent. From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in aPostmodern World. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

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Agar, Nicholas. Liberal Eugenics. Wiley/Blackwell, 2004.

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Black, Edwin. War against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a

Master Race. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003.

Church, George M., Ed Regis. Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology will Reinvent

Nature and Ourselves. NY: Basic Books, 2012.

Comfort, Nathaniel. The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart

of American Medicine. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

Engineering the Human Germline, Ed. Gregory Stock, John Campbell. New York

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Farmer, Ann. By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion

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Glad, John. Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-first Century.

Schuylkill Haven, PA: Hermitage, 2006.



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Kevles, Daniel. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity.

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McGee, Glenn. Perfect Baby: Parenthood in the New World of Cloning and Genetics.

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Rothschild, Joan. The Dream of the Perfect Child . Bloomington: Indiana University

Press, 2005.

Silver, Lee M. Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning will

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Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality. Ed.

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Tankard Reist, Melinda. Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics. North

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Immortality and Life Extension

Bova, Ben. Immortality—How Science is Extending Your Life Span—and Changing

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Doyle, Richard. Wetwares: Experiments in PostVital Living. University of Minnesota

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deGrey, Aubrey, and Michael Rae. Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation that Could

Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007.

Hall, Stephen S. Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life

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Olshansky, Stuart Jay, and Bruce A. Carnes. The Quest for Immortality: Science at

the Frontiers of Aging. New York: Norton, 2001.

Weiner, Jonathan. Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality.

Ecco/Harper Collins, 2011.

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