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Bennett, Gaymon, “Digital Enchantment: Life and the Future of Gene Editing,” Editing the Environment: Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law, ed. Irus Braverman (Routledge 2017)

Bennett, Gaymon. “Bioethical Pastoral: Life, Ethics, and the Politics of Human Dignity,” Biosocieties 17 January 2018 13(1): 1-23.

Bennett, Gaymon, “Synthetic Biology: The Digital Creation of Life,” Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens, eds. Michael Bess and Diana Walsh Pasulka (Macmillan Reference 2018)

Bennett, Gaymon.“Assembling the Living,” in Dodier and Stavrianakis eds, Les objets composés, Raisons Pratiques, 2018.

Bennett, Gaymon. “Silicon Valley’s Original Sin: Big Tech offers a world of self-actualization, wealth, and progress. What could go wrong?” Sojourner’s Magazine January 2019.

Hurlbut, J. Benjamin. Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.

Hurlbut, J. Benjamin, “In CRISPR’s World: Genome Editing and the Politics of Global Science,” Cambridge Handbook of Genomics and Society, eds. Stephen Hilgartner and Barbara Prainsack (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Hurlbut, J. Benjamin, “Laws of Containment: Control Without Limits in the New Biology,” Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment: Life Beyond the Human, ed. Irus Braverman (Routledge, 2017)

Hurlbut, J Benjamin et al. “Revisiting the Warnock Rule.” Nature Biotechnology 35, no. 11 (November 9, 2017): 1029–42.

Hurlbut, J Benjamin. “A Science That Knows No Country: Pandemic Preparedness, Global Risk, Sovereign Science.” Big Data & Society 4, no. 2 (December 2017): 205395171774241.

Hurlbut, J. Benjamin and Doeszema, Tess, “Technologies of Governance: Science, State and Citizen in Visions of the Bioeconomy,” Bioeconomies, ed Vincenzo Pavone and Joanna Goven (Palgrave Macmillan 2018)

Jasanoff, Sheila, and J. Benjamin Hurlbut, “A Global Observatory for Gene Editing,” Nature 555, no. 7697 (2018): 435

Hurlbut, J. Benjamin, Sheila Jasanoff, Krishanu Saha, Aziza Ahmed, Anthony Appiah, Elizabeth Bartholet, Françoise Baylis, et al. “Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Conceptual Challenges.” Trends in Biotechnology 36, no. 7 (July 1, 2018): 639–41.

Hurlbut, J. Benjamin. “Genome Editing: Ask Whether, Not How.” Nature 565 (January 10, 2019): 135.

Saha, Krishanu, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, Aziza Ahmed, Anthony Appiah, Elizabeth Bartholet, Françoise Baylis, et al. “Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Institutional Design.” Trends in Biotechnology 36, no. 8 (August 1, 2018): 741–43.

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, “Religion, Science, and Technology in the Post-Secular Age: The Case of Trans/Posthumanism,” Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 7 (2017), special issue on “Science, Religion and Secularity,” ed. Gregory Peterson

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, “Jewish Environmental Ethics: The Imperative of Responsibility,” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology, ed. John Hart (Wiley-Blackwell 2017)

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, “Technologizing Transcendence: A Critique of Transhumanism,” Religion and Human Enhancement: Death, Values and Morality, ed. Calvin Mercer and Tracy Trothen (Palgrave 2017)

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, "In Pursuit of Perfection: The Misguided Tranhumanist Vision," Theology and Science 16 (2) (2018): 200-222

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, "Humanistic Education in the Age of Big Data," On Education: Journal for Research and Debate," Special Issue on "'Human, All Too Human': Transhumanism, Posthumanism and the End of Education," ed. Anne Rostock, vol. 2 (August 2018)

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, “Judaism and the Dialogue of Religion and Science: A Personal Journey,” Theology and Science 16 (4): (2018): 388-414.

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, "Redemptive Activism: Judaism, Climate Change and Climate Engineering," in Playing God?: Multi-faith Responses to the Prospect of Climate Engineering, A GreenFaith Report, ed. Forrest Clingerman and Gary Gardner (Highland Park, NJ: GreenFaith, 2018), pp. 49-58; available online at www.greenfaith.org/geoengineering.