RJA #13b: Annotated Bibliography, Part 1

1) Gunderson, Martin. "Seeking Perfection: A Kantian Look at Human Genetic". Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2007: 87-102. Web 10 October 2009.

This source seems very credible because it has a lot of outside research. It's not going to be very useful for practical reasons because it deals a lot with the ethics which can be very subjective. The article is published in a medical journal though so it should be credible enough for me to use in my paper. I think that i'm going to use it mostly to present the opposing argument and refute it.

2) Simmons, D. (2008) Genetic inequality: Human Genetic Engineering. Nature Education 1(1). Web 17 October 2009.

This source seems pretty credible also. It is published by a site that has a lot of credibility and asserts itself as being academic. I think I can use this in my paper, but i'll have to be careful to use only information written by experts, and not people who are replying or commenting. This particular source will be good to use in the body of my argument. It has information on the practice of human genetic manipulation, so that will be useful when arguing for this research.

3) Shanks, Pete. Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed. New York: Nation Books, 2005.

This book seems very credible because the author has a couple of degrees and he has written other scholarly books on similar subjects. The sources for his writing are vast and diverse so I believe he got an objective view of the topic. This source will be useful for making my argument for human genetic manipulation, as well as in presenting some background information at the beginning of my paper.

4) Communications and Public Liaison Branch, "Genome.gov". National Human Genome Research Institute. Web 15 October 2009

This source is extremely credible because this is the organization that is doing the majority of research on this topic. They are isolating and categorizing all of the genomes in human DNA. This source will be useful for presenting some arguments for human genetic manipulation, as well as technical background information and examples.