Fiction Titles in Bioethics
This bibliography has been prepared by information specialists at the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature, Kennedy Institute of Ethics. The books listed may be used in high school classrooms to introduce topics or to generate discussion about bioethics. No specific books are recommended. The individual teacher bears responsibility for reviewing each book to determine its appropriateness for his or her students, classroom, school setting, and community.
Numbers in parentheses below correspond to numbers on NRCBL's classification scheme and indicate which bioethics topics are discussed in the book.
Abagnalo, George. BOY ON A PONY: A NOVEL. Clearwater, FL: Moreland Press, 2002. 286 p. ISBN 0-9706677-0-1. (10; 8.1; 8.5; Fiction) [ PS3601 .B35 B69 2002]
Atwood, Margaret E. THE HANDMAID'S TALE. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1985. 395 p. ISBN 0-449-21260-2. (14.2; Fiction) [PR9199.3 .A8 H3 1985]
Atwood, Margaret. ORYX AND CRAKE: A NOVEL. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2003. 376 p. ISBN 0-385-50385-7. (15.1; 5.1; Fiction) [PR9199.3 .A8 O79 2003]
Bear, Greg. DARWIN'S CHILDREN. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. 383 p. ISBN 0-345-44835-9. (15.6; 1.3.5; 9.5.7; 15.5; Fiction) [PS3552 .E157 D39 2003]
Bear, Greg. DARWIN'S RADIO. New York: Ballantine, 1999. 430 p. ISBN 0?345?42333?X. (15.1; 9.5.5; 9.5.8; Fiction) [PS3552 .E157 D43 1999]
Berger, Alan L. CHILDREN OF JOB: AMERICAN SECOND?GENERATION WITNESSES TO THE HOLOCAUST. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 241 p. ISBN 0?7914?3358?7. (21.4; 1.2; Fiction) [PS153 .J4 B468 1997]
Bell, James Scott. THE NEPHILIM SEED: A NOVEL. Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, 2001. 373 p. ISBN 0-8054-2438-5. (18.1; 1.2; 2.1; 9.5.5; Fiction) [PS3552 .E5158 N4 2001]
Bird, Sarah. THE MOMMY CLUB. New York: Doubleday, 1991. 371 p. ISBN 0-385-41123-5. (14.2; Fiction) [PS3552 .I74 M66 1991]
Bohjalian, Chris. MIDWIVES. New York: Vintage Books, c1997, 1998. 374 p. ISBN 0-375-70677-1. (9.5.5; 4.1.1; 20.5.1; Fiction) [PS3552 .O495 M5 1998]
Burroughs, William S. BLADE RUNNER: A MOVIE: [NOVEL]. Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1979. 78 p. ISBN 0-9126524-6-2. (9.3.1; Fiction) [PZ4.B972 B1]
Byers, Michael. LONG FOR THIS WORLD. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 432 p. ISBN 0-395-89171-X. (15.1; 9.5.2; 9.5.7; 20.7; Fiction) [PS3552 .Y42 L6 2003]
Capek, Karel. R.U.R. (ROSSUM'S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS). New York: Penguin Books, 2004. 84 p. ISBN 0-14-118208-3. ( Penguin Classics series.) (5.1; Fiction)
Childs, Donald J. MODERNISM AND EUGENICS: WOOLF, ELIOT, YEATS, AND THE CULTURE OF DEGENERATION. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 266 p. ISBN 0-521-80601-1. (15.5; 7.1; Fiction) [PR478 .M6 C47 2001]
Chiu, Tony. POSITIVE MATCH. New York: Bantam Books, c1997, 1998. 465 p. ISBN 0-553-57546-5. (19.1; Fiction) [PS3553 .H54 P67 1998]
Christofferson, April. CLINICAL TRIAL. New York: Forge, 2000. 450 p. ISBN 0-812-57468-0. (18.5.1; 9.7; Fiction) [PS3553 .H749 C57 2001]
Christofferson, April. THE PROTOCOL. New York: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1999. 304 p. ISBN 0-312-86638-0. (19.5; 15.1; Fiction) [PS3553.H749 P76 1999]
Cloud, Dan. THE AESCULAPIAN. Savannah, GA: Frederic C. Beil, 1998. 359 p. ISBN 0-913720-98-4. (21.1; 7.3; 9.5.9; Fiction) [PS3553.L589 A68 1998]
Coetzee, J.M. THE LIVES OF ANIMALS. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 127 p. ISBN 0-691-00443-9. (22.1; Fiction) [HV4708 .L57 1999]
Cook, Robin. CHROMOSOME 6. New York: Berkley Books, 1998, c1997. 460 p. ISBN 0-425-16124-2. (15.4; 1.3.2; 14.5; 19.1; 22.1; Fiction) [PS3553 .O5545 C47 1998]
Cook, Robin. COMA. New York: New American Library, 1977. 309 p. (9.1; Fiction) [PS3553 .O5545 C5 1977b]
Cook, Robin. CONTAGION. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. 434 p. ISBN 0-399-14106-5. (9.3.2; Fiction) [PS3553 .O5545 C66 1995]
Cook, Robin. FATAL CURE. New York: Berkley Books, c1993, 1995. 449 p. ISBN 0-425-14563-8. (9.3.2; Fiction) [PS3553 .O5545 F38 1995]
Cook, Robin. GODPLAYER. New York: Signet, 1983. 319 p. ISBN 0-451-15728-1. (2.1; Fiction) [PS3553 .O5545 G6 1983]
Cook, Robin. HARMFUL INTENT. New York: Putnam, 1990. 400 p. ISBN 0-399-13481-6. (8.5; Fiction) [PS3553 .O5545 H37 1990]
Cook, Robin. MINDBEND. New York: G.P. Putnam" Nine Lives.) (15.1; 14.5; Fiction) [PS648.S3 C57 1998]
Darnton, John. THE EXPERIMENT. New York: Dutton, 1999. 421 p. ISBN 0-525-94517-2. (14.5; 18.1; 19.1; Fiction) [PS3554 .A727 E97 1999]
Delbanco, Nicholas. IN THE NAME OF MERCY. New York: Warner Books, 1995. 310 p. ISBN 0-446-51711-9. (20.5.1; 20.7; Fiction) [PS3554 .E442 I55 1995]
Desai, Ketan. GERMS OF WAR. London/Atlanta, GA: Minerva Press, 1999. 268 p. ISBN 0?75140?988?7. (21.3; Fiction) [PR6054 .E783 G47 1999]
Djerassi, Carl. CANTOR'S DILEMMA. New York: Doubleday, 1989. 230 p. ISBN 0-385-26183-7. (1.3.9; Fiction) [PS3554 .J47 C36 1989]
Djerassi, Carl. NO: A NOVEL. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. 276 p. ISBN 0-8203-2032-3. (14.1; Fiction)
Donaldson, Don. DO NO HARM: A NOVEL. New York: Jove Books, 1999. 344 p. ISBN 0-515-12650-0. (9.5.1; Fiction) [PS3554.O4679 D6 1999]
Dooling, Richard. CRITICAL CARE. New York: William Morrow, c1992. 248 p. ISBN 0-688-10926-8. (9.1; Fiction) [PS3554 .O583 S77 1991]
Dorfman, Ariel. DEATH AND THE MAIDEN. New York: Penguin Books, 1992. 75 p. ISBN 0-14-048238-5. (18.5.3; 21.4; Fiction) [PR9309.9 .D67 D4 1992]
Douglas, Colin. ETHICS MADE EASY: A NOVEL. [Edinburgh, Scotland]: Mainstream, 1985. 165 p. ISBN 0-006-173926. (2.1; Fiction) [R724 .D685 1985]
Fast, Howard. THE TRIAL OF ABIGAIL GOODMAN. New York: Crown, 1993. 256 p. ISBN 0-517-59502-8. (12.4.2; Fiction)
Freeny, Michael. TERMINAL CONSENT. Orlando, FL: William Austin Press, 1998. 371 p. ISBN 0?9663686?6?5. (9.3.2; 1.3.12; 8.4; 9.3.1; Fiction) [in process]
Goldreich, Gloria. MOTHERS. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989. 439 p. ISBN 0-316-31936-8. (14.2; Fiction) [PS3557 .O3845 M67 1989]
Goodman, Robin Truth. INFERTILITIES: EXPLORING FICTIONS OF BARREN BODIES. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. 234 p. ISBN 0-8166-3488-2. (10; 14.1; Fiction) [PQ7082 .F35 G63 2001]
Harrison, Claire. SOMEBODY'S BABY. New York: Doubleday, 1989. 244 p. ISBN 0-385-26087-3. (11.2; 12.1; Fiction) [PR9199.3 .H3457 S65 1989]
Hoffman, Alice. AT RISK. New York: Putnam, 1988. 219 p. ISBN 0-399-13367-4. (9.5.6; Fiction) [RA644 .A25 H63 1988]
Hoffman, Eva. THE SECRET: A NOVEL. New York: PublicAffairs/Perseus Books Group, 2002, c2001. 265 p. ISBN 1-58648-150-9. (14.5; 1.1; 4.4; 17.1; Fiction) [PR6108 .O34 S43 2002]
Horowitz, Sara R. VOICING THE VOID: MUTENESS AND MEMORY IN HOLOCAUST FICTION. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 276 p. ISBN 0?7914?3130?4. (21.4; Fiction) [PN56.3 .J4 H67 1997]
Hurst, Philip W. and Hurst, J. Willis. PRESCRIPTION FOR GREED. Savannah, GA: Frederic C. Beil, 2000. 277 p. ISBN 1-929490-04-6. (18.1; 1.3.2; 9.7; 21.1; Fiction) [PS3558 .U457 A95 2000]
Kellerman, Jonathan. DR. DEATH: A NOVEL. New York: Ballantine Books, c2000, 2001. 436 p. ISBN 0?345?44880-4. (20.7; 8.1; 20.5.1; Fiction) [PS3561 .E3865 D7 2001]
Kellerman, Jonathan. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. New York: Bantam Books, c1997, 1998. 519 p. ISBN 0?553?57232?6. (15.5; 4.4; 9.5.3; 9.5.7; Fiction) [PS3561 .E3865 S8 1998]
Klass, Perri. OTHER WOMEN'S CHILDREN. New York: Random House, 1990. 284 p. ISBN 0-394-58699-9. (4.1.2; Fiction) [PS3561 .L248 O84 1990]
Koman, Victor. SOLOMON'S KNIFE. New York: F. Watts, 1989. 278 p. ISBN 0-531-15108-5. (14.4; Fiction) [PS3561 .O452 S6 1989]
Kovner, Abba. SCROLLS OF TESTIMONY. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2001. 191 p. ISBN 0-8276-0710-5. (21.4; Fiction) [PJ5054 .K6 M4413 2001]
Lantos, John D. THE LAZARUS CASE: LIFE-AND-DEATH ISSUES IN NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 183 p. ISBN 0-8018-6762-2. (20.5.2; 2.3; 7.1; 8.3.1; 8.5; 20.4.2; LE; Fiction) [RJ253.5 .L36 2001]
Le Carre, John. THE CONSTANT GARDENER: A NOVEL. New York: Scribner, 2001. 492 p. ISBN 0-7432-1505-2. (18.5.9; 1.3.2; 9.7; 18.3; Fiction) [PR6062 .E33 C66 2001]
Lewis, Sinclair. ARROWSMITH. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1924, [1990]. 486 p. ISBN 0-15-108216-2. (18.1; Fiction) [PS3523 .E94 A7 1990]
Lightman, Alan. THE DIAGNOSIS. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. 369 p. ISBN 0-679-43615-4. (7.1; Fiction) [PS3562 .I45397 D5 2000]
Lustiger, Gila. THE INVENTORY: A NOVEL. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001. 294 p. ISBN 1-55970-549-3. (21.4; 1.3.5; 15.5; Fiction) [PT2672 .U823 B4713 2001]
Mackey, James D. PLEASE LET ME DIE! Hollywood, CA: Damas, 1976. 248 p. (20.6; Fiction) [PZ4 .M1568 P1]
Mates, Susan Onthank. THE GOOD DOCTOR. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994. 123 p. ISBN 0-87745-467-1. (9.1; 7.1; Fiction) [PS3563 .A83538 G66 1994]
Mathews, Adrian. VIENNA BLOOD: A NOVEL. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 386 p. ISBN 0-06-019341-7. (15.5; 1.3.2; 1.3.5; 14.1; 15.1; 19.1; Fiction) [PR6063 .A848 V54 1999]
Mawer, Simon. MENDEL'S DWARF. Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 1998. 450 p. ISBN 0-7862-1519-4. (15.5; Fiction) [PR9120.9 .M38 M46 1998]
McEwan, Ian. AMSTERDAM. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1999. 193 p. ISBN 0-385-49423-8. (20.7; 1.3.7; 20.5.1; Fiction) [PR6063 .C4 A47 1999]
McHaffie, Hazel. HOLDING ON?. Cheshire, England: Books for Midwives Press; Distributed in the U.S. by: Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994. 217 p. ISBN 1-898507-21-X. (20.5.2; 1.2; Fiction) [PR6063 .C517 H65 1994]
Neuhaus, Richard, ed. THE ETERNAL PITY: REFLECTIONS ON DYING. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. 181 p. ISBN 0-268-02757-9. (20.1; 1.2; 4.4; 20.3.1; 20.4.1; 20.7; Fiction) [BD444 .E84 2000]
Nies, Betsy L. EUGENIC FANTASIES: RACIAL IDEOLOGY IN THE LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE OF THE 1920'S. New York: Routledge, 2002. 129 p. ISBN 0-415-93738-8. (15.5; 2.2; 7.1; Fiction) [PS228 .R32 N54 2002]
O'Brien, Tim. THE NUCLEAR AGE. New York: Laurel/Dell, 1985. 312 p. ISBN 0-440-55974-X. (21.2; 16.2; Fiction) [PS3565 .B75 N8 1985]
Olson, David F. WHERE HAVE ALL THE MOTHERS GONE?. Adelaide, Australia: Lutheran Publishing House, 1983. 154 p. ISBN 0-85910-223-8. (14.1; Fiction) [PT9876.25 .L645 W5413 1983]
Orient, Jane M. and Wright, Linda J. SUTTON'S LAW. Macon, GA: Hacienda Publishing, 1997. 299 p. 0-9641077-1-6. (9.1; 9.3.1; 20.1; Fiction)
Percy, Walker. THE THANATOS SYNDROME. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987. 372 p. ISBN 0-374-37354-5. (2.1; Fiction) [PS3566 .E6912 T46 1987]
Polan, Mary Lake. SECOND SEED: A NOVEL. New York: Scribner's, 1987. 280 p. ISBN 0-684-18735-3. (14.4; Fiction) [PS3566 .O4 S4 1987]
Powers, Richard. GALATEA 2.2. New York: Harper Perennial, c1995, 1996. 329 p. ISBN 0-06-097692-6. (7.1; 5.1; Fiction) [PS3566 .O92 G35 1996]
Powers, Richard. OPERATION WANDERING SOUL. New York: HarperPerennial/
HarperCollins, 1994. 352 p. ISBN 0-06-097611-X. (20.4.2; 8.1; Fiction) [PS3566 .O92 O64 1994]
Quindlen, Anna. ONE TRUE THING. New York: Dell, 1994. 387 p. ISBN 0-440-22103-X. (20.5.2; Fiction) [PS3567 .U336 O28 1995]
Rodin, Alvin E. and Key, Jack D., eds. CONAN DOYLE'S TALES OF MEDICAL HUMANISM AND VALUES: ROUND THE RED LAMP, BEING FACTS AND FANCIES OF MEDICAL LIFE, WITH OTHER MEDICAL SHORT STORIES. Malabar, FL: Krieger, 1992. 481 p. ISBN 0-89464-571-4. (4.1.2; Fiction) [PR4621 .R6 1992]
Rold, Jim. FIRST DEGREE LOVE: A NOVEL OF EUTHANASIA. Portland, OR: Strawberry Hill Press, 1992. 207 p. ISBN 0-89407-106-8. (20.5.1; Fiction) [PS3568 .O53327 F57 1992]
Selzer, Richard. IMAGINE A WOMAN AND OTHER TALES. New York: Random House, 1990. 229 p. ISBN 0-394-58535-6. (7.1; Fiction) [PS3569 .E585 I47 1990]
Shaw, George Bernard. THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA. Boston: IndyPublish.com, 2003. 107 p. ISBN 1?4043?4803?4. (9.4; 7.1; Fiction) [PR5365 .D63 2003]
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. FRANKENSTEIN. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993. 242p. ISBN 1-566-19091-6. (Originally written in 1818 as the result of a wager made with Lord Byron. Various editions are available.) (18.1; Fiction) [PR5397.F7 1993c]
Silko, Leslie Marmon. ALMANAC OF THE DEAD: A NOVEL. New York: Penguin Books, c1991, 1992. 763 p. ISBN 0?14?017319?6. (7.1; 19.1; 20.1; 21.7; Fiction) [PS3569 .I44 A79 1992]
Snodgrass, Steven L. LETHAL DOSE. Orlando, FL/Montreal, Canada: ICAM Publishing, 1996. 339 p. ISBN 0-9642463-1-7. (20.5.1; Fiction) [PS3569 .N56 L48 1996]
Spiegelman, Art. MAUS I: A SURVIVOR'S TALE: MY FATHER BLEEDS HISTORY. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. 159 p. ISBN 0-394-74723-2. (Cartoon-strip format) (21.4; 1.2; Fiction) [D810 .J4 S643 1986]
Spiegelman, Art. MAUS II: A SURVIVOR'S TALE: AND HERE MY TROUBLES BEGAN. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. 135 p. ISBN 0-394-55655-0. (Cartoon-strip format.) (21.4; 1.2; Fiction) [D810 .J4 S6431 1991]
Tate, David A. IN THE MATTER OF BILLY K. New York: M. Evans, 1991. 228 p. ISBN 0-87131-651-X. (20.5.2; 4.1.1; 8.3.2; Fiction) [PS3570 .A76 I5 1991]
Trollope, Anthony. THE FIXED PERIOD: A NOVEL. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. 183 p. ISBN 0-472-06448-7. (Fiction; 9.5.2; 20.5.1) [PR5684 .F55 1990]
Walker, Alice. POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY. New York: Pocket Star Books/Simon & Schuster, 1992. 288 p. ISBN 0-671-78942-2. (9.5.5; 10; Fiction) [PS3573 .A425 P67 1993]
Weil, Jiri. LIFE WITH A STAR. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. 208 p. ISBN 0-374-18737-1. (21.4; 1.2; Fiction) [PG5038 .W4 Z313 1989]
Wilson, Charles. EMBRYO. New York: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1999. 304 p. ISBN 0-312-96824-8. (14.1; 15.6; 18.5.4; Fiction) [PS3573 .I45684 E4 1999]
Winckler, Martin. THE CASE OF DOCTOR SACHS. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000. 432 p. ISBN 1-58322-056-9. (7.1; Fiction) [PQ2683 .I456 M3513 2000]
Yalom, Irvin D. LYING ON THE COUCH: A NOVEL. New York: BasicBooks, 1996. 369 p. ISBN 0-465-04295-3. (17.2; 8.1; 10; Fiction) [PS3575 .A39 L95 1996]
Bibliography prepared by Lucinda Fitch Huttlinger, M.L.S., M.M., Acquisitions Librarian, The National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Last updated November 23, 2005.
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