Books

Catherine Baker, Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised by Genetic Research. Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999. (ehrweb.aaas.org/ehr/books/contents.html). This clearly written book describes the Human Genome Project. Using compelling real-life and hypothetical situations, the author thoughtfully presents the scientific underpinnings of the project, the goal of which is to identify and map the human genetic code, as well as the ethical, social, and legal issues that the project raises.

Lisa Belkin, First Do No Harm. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Through the lives of real patients, their families, and their doctors, this book looks at life-and-death issues in medical ethics as they arose one summer at a city hospital in Texas. The inner workings of a hospital ethics committee are revealed, as doctors and others ponder the dilemmas posed by their...