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HUMAN SEXUALITY RESOURCES
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RELATED
BOOKS
Abramson,
P.R. Sarah: A
Sexual Biography, Albany, NY. State University of New York
Press, 1984.
Abramson,
P.R. & Pinkerton, S.D. With
Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality, New
York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Abramson,
P.R. & Pinkerton, S.D. Sexual
Nature/Sexual Culture, Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1995.
Bullough,
Vern. Sexual Attitudes:
Myths & Realities.
Bullough,
Vern. Human Sexuality:
An Encyclopedia. (1994) A scholarly
and comprehensive reference that summarizes the state of knowledge on all aspects of human sexual behavior in some 200 signed topical articles, each followed by a bibliography of essential primary sources for researching subjects in depth.
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Bullough,
Vern. Frontiers of Sex
Research.
Penner,
Cliff and Joyce. Men and
Sex (winner
of the Christian Booksellers Association Gold Medallion).
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now
Penner,
Cliff and Joyce. 52 Ways
to Have Fun.
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Penner,
Cliff and Joyce.
Fantastic Sex.
Penner,
Cliff and Joyce. What
Every Woman Wants Her Husband to Know About Sex.
Stock,
Gregory. The Book of
Questions. Workman., NY, 1987. 54 printings. 2.2 million
in print. (Foreign 150,000). New York Times best-seller list
for 26 weeks. Translations: Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, German,
Swedish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Japanese,
Portuguese, Icelandic, Hebrew, Hungarian, Slovakian, Bulgarian.
Stock,
Gregory. The Kids' Book
of Questions. Workman. NY, 1988. 16 printings. 650,000 in
print. (Foreign 40,000). Publishers Weekly
Juvenile best seller list for 2 months. Translations:
German, Hungarian, Japanese.
Stock,
Gregory. Love and Sex:
The Book of Questions. Workman. NY, 1989. 21 printings.
650,000 in print. (Foreign-80,000) Translations: Hungarian,
Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean.
RELATED
ARTICLES
Abramson,
P.R., Cloud, M.Y, Keese, R. & Girardi, J. (1997). Proof positive: Pornography in a day care center. Sexual
Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 9 75-86.
Abramson,
P.R., Cloud, M.Y., Keese, N. & Keese, R. (1994). How much
is too much: Dependency in a psychotherapeutic relationship. American
Journal of Psychotherapy, 48, 294-301.
Abramson,
P.R., Parker, T. & Weisberg, S.R. (1988). The sexual
expression of mentally retarded people: Educational and legal
implications. American Journal of Mental
Retardation.93,328-334.
GENE THERAPY RESOURCES
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you will find articles, books, videos, and
Web sites, relating
to this topic discussed in the television series.
RELATED
BOOKS
Aebersold,
Paul. Biotechnology
Backstage,
1998. Story of the mad rush to clone new genes at Cetus Corporation, and
the heady days of promising clinical trials at the National Cancer Institute.
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Dawkins,
Richard. The Extended Phenotype, 1999.
In this influential and controversial book that has become a classic in popular science writing, Dawkins furthers his fascinating look at the evolution of life and natural selection.
Sequel to The
Selfish Gene.
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Lyon,
Jeff and Peter Gorner. Altered
Fates: Gene Therapy and the Retooling of Human Life.
Thompson,
Larry. Correcting the
Code: Inventing the Genetic Cure for the Human Body
Stock,
Gregory. Metaman: The
Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism. Simon & Schuster (NY) Doubleday (Toronto), Bantam
(London), Mondadori (Italy) Kadakawa (Tokyo), Soho (China),
1993.
Stock,
Gregory and John Campbell. Engineering
the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics
of Altering the Genes We Pass to Our Children, Oxford
University Press, December 1999.
Stock,
Gregory. Redesigning
Humans: How Technology will Reshape the Human Form and
Character. In preparation. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Stock,
Gregory. In the Future
…The Book of Questions. In preparation, Workman Press,
2000.
RELATED
ARTICLES
A
New Front in the Battle Against Disease (Engineering the Human
Germline, eds., Gregory B. Stock, John Campbell.
Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 43-48, 2000).
Beyond
Chicken Soup, William A. Haseltine (Scientific American, October,
2001).
Gene
Therapy (Scientific
American, 273: 124-128, 1995).
Gene
Therapy: Strategies for Gene Therapy (Encyclopedia of
Bioethics, 907-914, 1994).
Genetic
Engineering and Our Humanness: A Revolutionary Prospect (Human
Gene Therapy, 5: 745-760, 1994) Forword by Rev. Canon Michael
R. Hamilton, A Christian Perspective on Genetic Engineering by
James M. Gustafsen, Genetic Engineering and Our Humanness by
W. French
Anderson.
Germ-line
Gene Therapy: A New Stage of Debate (Law, Medicine, and
Health Care, 1992).
Human
Gene Therapy (Nature,
392 [Supp]: 25-30, 1998).
Human
Gene Therapy: The Initial Concepts, (Gene Therapy for Diseases
of the Lung, Brigham, K.L., eds., Marcel Dekker, Inc. pp.
3-16, 1997).
Prospects
for in Utero Human Gene Therapy (Science,
Vol. 285, No. 5436, 2084-2088, September 24, 1999).
RELATED
WEB SITES
Electronic
Scholarly Publishing - This site is a repository of scholarly publications and classic
texts on
genetics that may be read online.
Gene Therapy
- A professional community website that aims to act as a single business portal for all who are actively involved in gene therapy.
The
Human Genome Project - Funded and run by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, this comprehensive site covers the government's project to map the human genome.
Human Gene Therapy
- A rapid-publication peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of human gene therapy. Scientific papers on original investigations into the transfer and expression of genes in mammals .
Institute for Human Gene Therapy
- Providing a foundation for basic research necessary to assure the success of human gene
therapy from the University of Pennsylvania.
The Journal of Gene Medicine
- Articles on gene therapy including design and production of vectors, research into the mechanisms underlying gene transfer, preclinical studies including animal models, developmental aspects and clinical trials.
News
Rx Network Regularly updated report on gene therapy from NewsRx, publisher of Gene Therapy Weekly.
AGING
RESOURCES
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RELATED
BOOKS
Kurzweil, Ray. The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life: How to Eliminate Virtually All Risk of Heart Disease
and Cancer, Crown Publishers, 1993. Bookman Press (Australian Edition), 1993.
Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1995.
Nuland,
Sherwin. How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final
Chapter, 1993. A sobering look at the clinical reality of death by a physician who wants it known that ``we rarely go gentle into that good night.
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Nuland,
Sherwin. How We Live, 1998. A fascinating examination of the machinery of life
and the Human Spirit that keeps it working.
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now
Walford,
Roy. The 120-Year Diet.
Walford, Roy and Lisa. The Anti-Aging Plan : Strategies and Recipes for Extending Your Healthy Years.
With text and recipes, the author shows how the principles of nutrient-rich caloric limitation can be applied to everyday dietary habits and nutritional needs.
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