Genetic modification

References and further reading

	Alcamo, E (1999) DNA Technology, London: Academic. (Technical manual.)
	Cohen, S.N., Chang, A.C.Y., Boyer H.W. and Helling, R.B. (1973) ‘Construction of biologically functional bacterial plasmids in vitro’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Vol. 70 3240–3244. (See §2.)
	Bruce, D. and Bruce A. (1998) Engineering Genesis: the ethics of genetic engineering in non-human species, London: Earthscan. (A sober and informative work that includes eleven case studies, from genetically modified soil bacteria to Dolly, and contains an introduction to the techniques, followed by chapters on ethical aspects.)
	Conway, G. (1997) The Doubly Green Revolution, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Argues the benefits of GM crops for world food security.)
	Ho, M.-W. (1999) Genetic Engineering – Dream or Nightmare?, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. (A benchmark reference for the anti-GM lobby.)
	Tester, M. (1999) ‘Seeking clarity in the debate over the safety of GM foods’. Nature 402, 575. (Tries to define the complexity behind disagreements over the safety of GM crops)
	Watson, J.D., Gilman, M., Witkowski, J., and Zoller, M. (1992) Recombinant DNA, 2nd edn. New York: Freeman. (Classic technical manual.)
	Wilmut, I., Campbell, K. and Tudge, C. (2000) The Second Creation, London: Headline. (Describes the creation of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.)
	www.genewatch.org/. (Generally anti-GM website, with numerous links to other useful sites.)
	www.gmissues.org/frames.htm. (Generally pro-GM website, with numerous links to other useful sites.)
	www.nuffield.org/bioethics/publication/modifiedcrops/index.html. (A particularly well informed overview of issues presented by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.)