Books
Forth Making Better Humans: How We Think about Human Enhancement. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
2024 Disembodied Brains: Understanding our Intuitions on Neuro-Chimeras and Human-Brain Organoids. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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 “Public Values in Ecological Restoration Science: Lessons for Scholars of Public Values.” Ergo (with Karen Kovaka).
2025 “Will an Enhanced Child Have Less Freedom? A U.S. Nationally Representative Survey Experiment.” The Hastings Center Report 55 (4): 9-14.
2025 “Building Decision Points Into Research’s Slipperiest Slopes.” Issues in Science and Technology 41 (4): 78-82. (With Craig Callender, Neal Devaraj, Farren Isaacs and Gregory Kaebnick)
2024 “Translational Bioethics Decision-Making: Human Brain Organoids as a Case Study.” Ethics and Human Research 46 (4): 47-51
2024 “Scientism, Trust, Value Alignment, Views of Nature and U.S. Public Opinion About Gene Drive Mosquitos.” (With Cynthia E. Schairer) Public Understanding of Science 33(7): 884-901.
2023 “Brain Organoids, Consciousness, Ethics and Moral Status.” Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 144: 97-102 (With Jacob Jeziorski, Reuven Brandt, Wendy Campana, Michael Kalichman, Evan Thompson, Lawrence Goldstein, Christof Koch and Alysson Muotri)
2023 “Patient Narratives of Hope in Stem Cell Technologies: Trust in Biomedicine and the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself.” Health 27(4): 476-490 (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.