Books
2016 What is a Human? What the Answers Mean for Human Rights. New York, NY: Oxford University Press
2010 Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
Journal Articles
Forth “Patient Narratives of Hope in Stem Cell Technologies: Trust in Biomedicine and the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself.” Health (With Lauren Olsen and Lindsay DePalma)
2020 “The Theological Debate Over Human Enhancement: an Empirical Case Study of a Mediating Organization.” Zygon 55(3): 615-637.
2020 “Self-Interested and Altruistic Motivations in Volunteering for Clinical Trials: A More Complex Relationship.” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 15(5): 443-451.(With Lauren Olsen and Lindsay DePalma)
2019 “Science, Values and Science Communication: Competencies for Pushing Beyond the Deficit Model.” (With Catherina Gere, Sherry Seethaler and Ramya Rajagopalan) Science Communication 41 (3): 378-388.
2018 “Biomedical Ethics and Clinical Oversight in Multisite Observational Neuroimaging Studies with Children and Adolescents: The ABCD Experience.” (With Duncan B. Clark, Celia B. Fischer, Susan Bookheimer, Sandra A. Brown, Christian Hopfer, James Hudziak, Ivan Montoya, Margaret Murray, Adolf Pfefferbaum and Deborah Yurgelun-Todd.) Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 32: 143-154
2003 “Commodifying Life? A Pilot Study of Opinions Regarding Financial Incentives for Organ Donation.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28 (6): 1003-1032.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
2020 “Biotechnology and the Non-religious Uses of God Talk.” Pp. 123-137 in Religion and Biopolitics. Edited by Ulrich Willems and Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann. Springer International.
2016 “Future Vision in Transhumanist Writings and the Religious Public.” Pp. 291-306 In Perfecting Human Futures: Transhuman Futures and Technological Imaginations. Edited by J. Benjamin Hurlbut and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson. Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag.
2016 “Bioethics and Medicalization.” Pp. 241-262 in To Fix or To Heal: Conflicting Directions in Contemporary Medicine and Public Health. Edited by Joseph E. Davis and Ana Marta Gonzalez. New York, NY: New York University Press.
2013 “‘Teaching Humanness’ Claims In Synthetic Biology and Public Policy Bioethics.” Pp. 177-204 in Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature. Edited by Gregory E. Kaebnick and Thomas H. Murray. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.