Friday, September 4, 2015

Evaluation of Scholarly Sources

I used Google Scholar and JSTOR to search for a couple of articles on human genetic engineering. Here's what I found...

Source 1
I searched "human genetic engineering" and "controversy" on Google Scholar to come to this essay. Its purpose was to discuss the depths genetic engineering has come to, with a focus on human cloning, and gather different thoughts from a variety of different people. These four students at the Islamic Azad University talked to people from different social classes, genders, ethnicity, and family situation to get the best overview of public opinion on genetic engineering. 

I'm assuming the essay was meant for those interested in the facts of human cloning and the human rights controversy that comes along with it. It was published at the European Journal of Experimental Biology in 2014 as an essay. Sources cited ranged from Nature and Cloning and stem cells to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Ricardi, Richard. "Human Genome". 12/28/2013 via Flickr. Creative Commons License.
Source 2
I searched for genetic engineering and human embryo and controversy on JSTOR and came up with this book, with only about 6 pages about what I searched for. The author, M. Mameli, focused on 2 main opinions on this genetic engineering in humans including human cloning, one in favor and the other against. The ethical line that would be crossed was a focus Mameli had.

This source was published in the book Journal of Medical Ethics through the British Medical Journal. The references made were from sources like the Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, and various books on cloning, genes, and bioethics. The intended audience was again for people interested in the ethics of genetic engineering and perhaps students researching about it as well. 

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