With input from our staff, authors, and External Advisory Board, CITI Program has compiled a list of must-read books for the Summer of 2021. This list covers topics like the expanding role of race in biomedicine, how academia has become a major target of foreign and domestic espionage, the future of gene editing, the science of socially aware algorithm design, and privacy in modern America.
Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age
Source: Columbia University Press Using BiDil as a central case study, Kahn broadly examines the legal and commercial imperatives driving the expanding role of race in biomedicine, even as scientific advances in genomics could render the issue irrelevant.
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Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities
Source: Picador (McMillan Publishers Imprint) Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become a major target of foreign and domestic espionage—and why that is troubling news for our nation's security and democratic values.
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Source: Simon & Schuster The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
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The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
Source: Oxford University Press Presents cutting-edge research in the science of socially aware algorithm design and interweaves fascinating case studies from business, law, and medicine with analysis of the science behind new technologies.
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The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
Source: Harvard University Press The Known Citizen reveals how privacy became the indispensable language for monitoring the ever-shifting line between our personal and social selves.
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