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Genetics, Reproductive Technology
and Ethics
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Aldridge, Susan, The
Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering, Cambridge
University Press, 1996
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Appleyard, Bryan, Brave
New Worlds: Staying Human in the Genetic Future, Viking Press, 1998
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Barondes, Samuel H., Mood
Genes: Hunting for Origins of Mania and Depression, W H Freeman &
Co, 1998
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Bayertz, Kurt, Sarah Kirkby (Translator), Genethics:
Technological Intervention in Human Reproduction As a Philosophical Problem,
Cambridge Univ Press, 1994
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Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, Laimdota Mazzarins (Translator), The
Social Implications of Bioengineering, Humanities Press, 1995
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Cole-Turner, Ronald (Editor), Human
Cloning: Religious Responses, Westminster John Knox Press, 1997
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Cook-Deegan, Robert, The
Gene Wars: Science, Politics and the Human Genome, W.W. Norton &
Company, 1996
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De Marco, Donald, Biotechnology
and the Assault on Parenthood, Ignatius Press, 1991
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Fenwick, Lynda Beck, Private
Choices, Public Consequences: Reproductive Technology and the New Ethics
of Conception, Pregnancy, and Family, E P Dutton, 1998
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Frankel , Mark S. and Albert H. Teich (Editors), The
Genetic Frontier: Ethics, Law, and Policy, AAS Distribution Center,
1994
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Review by M. LaBar, CHOICE, July-August 1994 v31 n11-12 p1743(1)
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Review by Kenneth J. Ryan, JAMA, The Journal of the American
Medical Association, Oct 5, 1994
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Grace, Eric S., Biotechnology
Unzipped: Promises & Realities, National Academy Press, 1997
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Hall, Laura Lee (Editor), Genetics
and Mental Illness: Evolving Issues for Research and Society Plenum Pub,
1996
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Hamer, Dean and Peter Copeland, Living
With Our Genes: Why They Matter More Than You Think, Doubleday &
Company, 1998
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Harris, John, Clones, Genes
and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetic Revolution, Oxford Univ Press,
1998
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Hartouni, Valerie, Cultural
Conceptions: On Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Life,
Univ of Minnesota Press, 1997
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Hubbard, Ruth and Elijah Wald, Exploding
the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists,
Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, Beacon Press,
1997
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Kaplan, Lawrence J., Rosemarie Tong, Controlling
Our Reproductive Destiny: A Technological and Philosophical Perspective
(New Liberal Arts), MIT Press, 1994
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Kass, Leon R. and James Q. Wilson, The
Ethics of Human Cloning, AEI Press, 1998
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Kevles, Daniel J. and Leroy Hood (Editors), Code
of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project,
Harvard Univ Press, 1993
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Kevles, Daniel J., In
the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, Harvard
University Press, 1995
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Kilner, John F., Rebecca D. Pentz and Frank E. Young (Editors), Genetic
Ethics: Do the Ends Justify the Genes? (Horizon in Bioethics Series),
Wm B Eerdmans Pub Co, 1997
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Kimbrell, Andrew, The
Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life (2nd Edition),
Regnery Publishing, 1998
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Kitcher, Philip, The
Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities, Touchstone
Books, 1997
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Review by Seabrook, John, The New Yorker Feb 12 1996, v71, n48, p79(3)
Harris, John, Nature April 18 1996, v380, n6575, p591(2)
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Review by Dixon, Bernard, New Scientist April 13 1996, v150, n2025, p42(1)
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Review by Bazell, Robert, The Lancet April 27 1996, v347, n9009, p1171(2)
Jennings, Lane, The Futurist May-June 1996, v30, n3, p58(1)
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Review by Green, Ronald M. , Issues in Science and Technology Fall 1996,
v13, n1, p85(3)
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Review by Dorothy C. Wertz, The
Gene Letter Volume 1, Issue 2, September 1996
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Review by Cole, Leonard A. , BioScience Oct 1996, v46, n9, p708(2)
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Review by Conrad, Peter, Science Nov 15 1996, v274, n5290, p1147(2)
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Review by Lyons, Graham and Smith, Joseph Wayne, Population and Development
Review March 1997, v23, n1, p181(4)
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Review by Bouchard, Thomas J., Quarterly Review of Biology March 1997,
v72, n1, p113(1)
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Kolata, Gina, Clone:
The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead, William Morrow & Co, 1998
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Review by John R. G. Turner, Ewe Two, The
New York Times, December 28, 1997
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Review by Robert S. Schwartz, M.D., The
New England Journal of Medicine, July 9, 1998, Volume 339, Number 2
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Lyon, Jeff and Peter Gorner, Altered
Fates: Gene Therapy and the Retooling of Human Life, W. W. Norton,
1996
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McGee, Glenn, The
Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach to Genetics, Rowman and Littlefield,
1997
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Murray, Thomas H. and Mark A. Rothstein (Editors), The
Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care (Medical Ethics Series),
Indiana Univ Press, 1996
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Pence, Gregory, Who's
Afraid of Human Cloning?, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998
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Peters, Ted, Playing
God?: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom, Routledge, 1996
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Peters, Ted (Editor), Genetics:
Issues of Social Justice (The Pilgrim Library of Ethics), Pilgrim Press,
1998
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Reiss, Michael J. and Roger Straughan, Improving
Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering Cambridge Univ
Press, 1996
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Review by Peter Conrad, Science, Nov 15, 1996 v274 n5290 p1147(2)
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Review by Ronald Preston, Theology, July-August 1997 v100 n796 p307(2)
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Review by Timothy Chappell, Journal of Medical Ethics, Oct 1997 v23 n5
p329(3)
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Review by Karl Drlica, Quarterly Review of Biology, March 1998 v73 n1 p60(1)
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Review by Roger Wrubel, BioScience, March 1998 v48 n3 p210(3)
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Rifkin, Jeremy, The
Biotech Century - A Second Opinion: The Marriage of the Genetic Sciences
and the Technologies Reshaping Our World, J P Tarcher, 1998
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Rose, Steven, Lifelines:
Biology Beyond Determinism, Oxford University Press, 1998
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Rothblatt, Martine A., Unzipped
Genes: Taking Charge of Baby-Making in the New Millennium (America in Transition
- Radical Perspectives), Temple Univ Press, 1997
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Rothstein, Mark A. (Editor), Genetic
Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era,
Yale Univ Press, 1997
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Shannon, Thomas A., Made
in Whose Image: Genetic Engineering and Christian Ethics, Humanities
Press, 1998
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Siever, Larry J. and William Frucht, New
View of Self: How Genes and Neurotransmitters Shape Your Mind, Your Personality,
and Your Mental Health, Macmillan General Reference, 1997
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Silver, Lee, Remaking
Eden; How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family,
Avon Books, 1997
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Review by Paul Raeburn, The Copy Shop, The
New York Times, January 11, 1998
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Review by Alan I. Packer, HMS
Beagle, March 6, 1998 · Issue 26
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Review by Robert S. Schwartz, M.D., The
New England Journal of Medicine, July 9, 1998, Volume 339, Number 2
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Sram, R.J. and V. Bulyzhenkov, L. Prilipko, Y. Christen (Editors), Ethical
Issues of Molecular Genetics in Psychiatry Springer Verlag 1991
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Review by Howard, Christopher, Journal of Medical Ethics June 1994, v20,
n2, p119(2)
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Sunstein, Cass R. and Martha C. Nussbaum (Editors), Clones
and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning, W.W. Norton &
Company 1998
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Review by David Papineau, Hello, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly . . . , New
York Times, September 6, 1998
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Review by Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, Sept-Oct 1998 v77 n5 p149(2)
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Review by Bryan Appleyard, New Statesman Oct 9, 1998 v127 n4406 p45(2)
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Suzuki, David and Peter Knudtson, Genethics:
The Clash Between the New Genetics and Human Values, Harvard Univ Press,
1990
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Turney, Jon, Frankenstein's
Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, Yale University Press,
1998
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Review by Walter Gratzer, HMS
Beagle BOOK REVIEW, (reprinted with permission from Current Biology,
July 30 - August 13, 1998, Vol. 8, Issue 16)
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Review by Noah J. Efron, It's Alive, Boston
Book Review 1998
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Review by Robert S. Schwartz, M.D., The
New England Journal of Medicine, January 21, 1999, Volume 340, Number 3
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Weir, Robert F. Susan C. Lawrence and Evan Fales (Editors), Genes
and Human Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Modern
Genetics, Univ of Iowa Press, 1994
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Wekesser, Carol (Editor), Genetic
Engineering: Opposing Viewpoints (Opposing Viewpoints Series) Greenhaven
Press, 1995
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Wright, Lawrence, Twins:
And What They Tell Us About Who We Are, John Wiley & Sons, 1997
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Wright, William, Born
That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality, Knopf, 1998
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Psychiatric Classification
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Blashfield, Roger K., The
Classification of Psychopathology, Plenum Pub Corp, 1984
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Guze, Samuel B. Why
Psychiatry Is a Branch of Medicine Oxford Univ Press, 1992
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Laor, Nathaniel, & Joseph Agassi Diagnosis:
Philosophical and Medical Perspectives (Epistheme, Vol. 15) Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1990.
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North, Carol S., M.D., Ryall, Jo-Ellyn M., M.D. and Ricci, Daniel A., Multiple
Personalities, Multiple Disorders: Psychiatric Classification and Media
Influence (Oxford Monographs on Psychiatry, No 1) Oxford U Press, 1993
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Reznek, L., The
Nature of Disease, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988
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Sadler, John et al. (editors) Philosophical
Perspectives on Psychiatric Classification (Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1994)
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Review by Bell, Carl C., JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Dec 14, 1994, v272, n22, p1794(3)
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Review by Savulescu, Julian, Journal of Medical Ethics August 1995, v21,
n4, p253(2)
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Tyrer, Peter J. (Editor), Classification
of Neurosis, John Wiley & Sons, 1989
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Tyrer, Peter J. and Patricia Casey (Editors), Social
Function in Psychiatry: The Hidden Axis of Classification Exposed,Wrightson
Biomedical Pub Ltd, 1993
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Philosophy of Mind,
Human Action, and Science
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Allen, Colin and Marc Bekoff, Species
of Mind: The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology, The MIT
Press, 1997
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Allen, Douglas and Ashok Malhotra (Editors), Culture
and Self: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives, East and West,
Westview Press, 1997
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Ames, Roger T., Wimal Dissanayake (Editors), Self
and Deception: A Cross-Cultural Philosophical Enquiry, State University
of New York, 1996
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Baron-Cohen, Simon, Mindblindness:
An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind (Learning, Development and Conceptual
Change) Cambridge: MIT Press, Bradford Books 1995
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Review by Gregory Currie, TLS, Times Literary Supplement August 25, 1995
n4821 p7(1)
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Review by Michael E. Goldberg, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience May 1996
v8 n3 p308(2)
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Review by Daniel J. Povinelli and Theodore J. Povinelli, Trends in Neurosciences
July 1996 v19 n7 p299(2)
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Bermudez, Jose Luis, et al., The
Body and the Self, Bradford Books, 1998
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Berofsky, Bernard, Liberation
from Self: A Theory of Personal Autonomy, Cambridge Univ Press, 1995
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Review by Dworkin, Gerald, The Journal of Philosophy April 1997, v94, n4,
p212(5)
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Review by Double, Richard, Mind April 1997, v106, n422, p337(5)
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Review by Kapitan, Tomis, International Philosophical Quarterly Sept 1997,
v37, n3, p370(3)
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Review by Mele, Alfred, TLS. Times Literary Supplement Jan 9 1998, n4945,
p29(1)
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Bolton, Derek, & Jonathan Hill Mind,
Meaning, and Mental Disorder: The Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology
and Psychiatry (Oxford Medical Publications) Oxford University Press,
Oxford, 1996
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Review by David C. Taylor, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and
Allied Disciplines, July 1997 v38 n5 p589(2)
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Review by F. Toates, Behavior Research and Therapy, 1997, Vol. 35, Iss.
12, pp. 1161-1165
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Braude, Stephen E., First
Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind Revised
Paperback, Rowman & Littlefield, 1995
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Review by Baillie, James, Mind April 1993, v102, n406, p349(5)
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Review by O'Brien, Lucy, The Philosophical Quarterly April 1993, v43, n171,
p272(2)
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Review by Graham, George; Stephens, G. Lynn, Ethics April 1995, v.105,
n3, 655-657
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Carson, Ronald A. and Chester R. Burns (Editors) Philosophy
of Medicine and Bioethics: A Twenty-Year Retrospective and Critical Appraisal
(Philosophy and Medicine, V. 50) Kluwer Academic Pub 1997
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Cataldi, Sue L., Emotion,
Depth, and Flesh: A Study of Sensitive Space: Reflections on Merleau-Ponty's
Philosophy of Embodiment, State Univ of New York Press, 1993
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Culver, Charles M. and Bernard Gert, Philosophy
in Medicine: Conceptual and Ethical Problems in Medicine and Psychiatry
Oxford Univ Press 1982
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Dancy, Jonathan (editor), Reading
Parfit, Blackwell, 1997
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De Sousa, Ronald, The
Rationality of Emotion, Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1990
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Dean, Alan, Chaos
and Intoxication: Complexity and Adaptation in the Structure of Human Nature,
Routledge, 1997
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Durig, Alexander, Autism
and the Crisis of Meaning, State Univ of New York Press, 1996
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Flanagan, Owen and Amelie Oksenberg Rorty (Editors), Identity,
Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology Bradford Books,
1993
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Flanagan, Owen, Self
Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life (Philosophy of Mind
Series) Oxford Univ Press 1996
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Fulford, K.W.M. Moral
Theory and Medical Practice (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
1989)
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Review by Gillett, Grant, The Philosophical Quarterly July 1991, v41, n164,
p379(3)
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Graham, George and G. Lynn Stephens Philosophical
Psychopathology (MIT, 1994)
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Greenspan, P. S. , Practical
Guilt: Moral Dilemmas, Emotions, and Social Norms, Oxford Univ Press,
1995
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Griffiths, A. Phillips (Editor) Philosophy,
Psychology and Psychiatry (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, No
37) Cambridge Univ Press, 1995
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Review by Radden, Jennifer, Journal of Medical Ethics August 1996, v22,
n4, p253(2)
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Review by Bolton, Derek, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Sept 1996, v47, n3, p474(2)
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Haworth, Lawrence, Autonomy:
An Essay in Philosophical Psychology and Ethics, Yale Univ Press, 1986
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Jenkins, Jennifer M., Keith Oatley, and Nancy Stein, Human
Emotions: A Reader, Blackwell Publishers, 1998
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Laudan, Larry (Editor) Mind
and Medicine: Problems of Explanation and Evaluation in Psychological and
Biomedical Sciences Univ California Press 1983
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Lehrer, Keith, Self-Trust:
A Study of Reason, Knowledge, and Autonomy, Clarendon Press, 1997
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Review by Mele, Alfred, TLS. Times Literary Supplement Jan 9 1998, n4945,
p29(1)
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Livingston, Donald W., Philosophical
Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of Philosophy, University
of Chicago Press, 1998
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MacDonald, Cynthia and Graham MacDonald, Philosophy
of Psychology (Debates on Psychological Explanation, Vol 1) ,Blackwell
Pub, 1995
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Martin, Raymond, Self-Concern:
An Experiential Approach to What Matters in Survival (Cambridge Studies
in Philosophy), Cambridge Univ Press, 1998
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May, Larry, Marilyn Friedman and Andy Clark (Editors), Mind
and Morals: Essays on Cognitive Science and Ethics, MIT Press, 1995
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Mele, Alfred R., Irrationality:
An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Self-Control, Oxford Univ
Press, 1987
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Mele, Alfred R., Springs
of Action: Understanding Intentional Behavior, Oxford Univ Press, 1992
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Review by Wilson, George M., The Philosophical Review Jan 1994, v103, n1,
p175(4)
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Review by Haji, Ishtiyaque, Canadian Journal of Philosophy Sept 1994, v24,
n3, p511(14)
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Mele, Alfred R., Autonomous
Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy, Oxford Univ Press, 1995
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Review Storl, H., CHOICE Feb 1996, v33, n6, p962(1)
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Review McConnell, Terrance, Ethics Jan 1997, v107, n2, p346(4)
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Review Brown, Michael, TLS. Times Literary Supplement April 25 1997, n4908,
p30(1)
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Mele, Alfred R., The
Philosophy of Action (Oxford Readings in Philosophy), Oxford Univ Press,
1997
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Messer, S. B., L. A. Sass, et al., Eds., Hermeneutics
and Psychological Theory: Interpretive Perspectives on Personality, Psychotherapy,
and Psychopathology, Rutgers Symposia on Applied Psychology. New Brunswick
and London, Rutgers University Press, 1988
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Review by Ruthellen Josselson, Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological
Processes, Nov 1995 v58 n4 p330(14)
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Mullen, John Douglas, Kierkegaard's
Philosophy: Self-Deception and Cowardice in the Present Age, Univ Press
of America, 1995
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Nussbaum, Martha C. The
Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (The Martin
Classical Lectures) Princeton Univ Press, 1996
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Olson, Eric T., The
Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology (Philosophy of Mind
Series), Oxford Univ Press, 1997
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Port, Robert F., and Timothy Van Gelder, Mind
As Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition, Bradford Books,
1998
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Radden, Jennifer, Madness
and Reason. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1985
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Radden, Jennifer Divided
Minds and Successive Selves: Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and
Personality (Philosophical Psychopathology : Disorders in Mind) (MIT,
1996)
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Review by Snowdon, Paul F., TLS. Times Literary Supplement April 18 1997,
n4907, p12(1)
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Review by Christian Perring, in Perspectives:
A Mental Health Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 2, May - June, 1997
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Review by Christian Perring, Journal of Mind and Behavior, 1998, Vol 19,
No. 1., pp. 91-101
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Review by P.G. Sturdee, Journal of Medical Ethics, Feb 1998 v24 n1 p66(2)
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Reznek, Laurie, The
Philosophical Defence of Psychiatry Routledge, 1991
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Review by Derek Bolton, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Nov 1992 v30 n6
p652(2)
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Rovane, Carol A., The
Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics, Princeton Univ
Press, 1998
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Santoni, Ronald E., Bad
Faith, Good Faith, and Authenticity in Sartre's Early Philosophy, Temple
University Press, 1995
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Scarborough, Don, Saul Sternberg, and Daniel N. Osherson, An
Invitation to Cognitive Science: Methods, Models, and Conceptual Issues,
Volume 4; 2nd Edition, MIT Press, 1998
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Schechtman, Marya The
Constitution of Selves Cornell Univ Press, 1996
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Stocker, Michael and Elizabeth Hegeman, Valuing
Emotions (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy), Cambridge Univ Press, 1996
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Remarks
on the Philosophy of Psychology Volume I edited by G.E.M. Anscombe,
G.H. von Wright, translated by G.E.M. Anscombe, University of Chicago Press
(facing German and English translation), 1982
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Remarks
on the Philosophy of Psychology Volume II edited by G.H. von Wright,
Heikki Nyman, translated by C.G. Luckhardt, and translated by M.A.E. Aue,
University of Chicago Press (facing German and English translation), 1982
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Note:
I do not necessary endorse any of the books I list. I certainly have
not read them all, and some I have never even seen. The main criteria
for inclusion in this bibliography are that a book should address some
issues relevant to assessing the status of psychiatry and the mental health
profession, or may be useful in making such an assessment. Obviously,
this list is not exhaustive, but I intend to keep it up to date and I am
always ready to get suggestions for additions.
Deciding in which category a book should fall is in many cases difficult,
since the categories I use are not mutually exclusive, and books can be
hard to classify. So inevitably some of the classifications I have
made may seem arbitrary. I may change the categories in the future,
and I would be interested in suggestions for alternative categorizations.
I have included a subsection on the ethics of human genetic technology
even though many of the books listed do not directly address psychiatric
issues. My reasons are that many of the issues concerning physical maladies
will be directly relevant to psychiatric disorders, and that how we deal
with genetic factors in mental disorders promises to be such a pressing
moral issue within a few years that any relevant books are worth listing
here.
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