Overview
Your annotated bibliography should reference 4 scholarly* sources, minimum two of which somehow engage with the ethics of your chosen technology. You should explicitly address ethics in your annotation for these 2 articles. If you submit more than 4 annotations/sources we will only read and grade the 1st 4.
Remember that your ethics sources can address the potential for a technology to be used in the future (aka for something that's not available now), and/or could address parallel technologies that might have similar ethical elements at play.
Your sources should be peer-reviewed scholarly sources (in an established academic journal, with citations). Sometimes these journals also publish commentaries or letters to the editor - note that these are not technically scholarly articles so don't count towards the 4 source requirement (although you're welcome to use these as additional sources in your paper)
For more on the difference between scholarly and popular sources, see https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/scholarlyLi... to an external site.). Another helpful source on annotated bibliographies is this short WI+RE module: https://uclalibrary.github.io/research-tips/annota... to an external site.
Some journals to check out for good ethical analyses include (but are certainly not limited to):
American Journal of Bioethics, BMC Medical Ethics, Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Voices in Bioethics, Hypatia
and more! Here's a site with a list of bioethics journals: https://asbh.org/resources/journalsLinks to an external site.
Each entry should contain:
The bibliography of the source in APA format.Links to an external site. Your citations should include the DOI number for credit
A short description in your own words of 1) main point/topic of the source and 2) how you might use it in your paper
(4 sentences)
Please order the 4 entries alphabetically by last name of first author.
Example:
Kerr, D., & Beaujot, R. (2003). Child Poverty and Family Structure in Canada, 1981-1997. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 34(3), 321-335. https://doi.org/10.3138/jcfs.34.3.321
In this article, sociology professors Kerr and Beaujot analyze the family structure of impoverished families. Drawing on data from Canada's annual Survey of Consumer Finances, the authors focus on child poverty as it relates to single parenthood, parental age, and number of children. They state that lower unionization rates and non-marital childbearing may contribute to rising childhood poverty. I plan to use this article in my research paper to argue that low union membership affects familial and childhood poverty.
My topic and feedback from instructor:
For my final paper, I plan on writing about the ethical implications of genetic research that seeks to identify a so-called "gay gene." As a queer student from a cultural background where queerness is often stigmatized, I worry that this type of research could be misused to justify discrimination or attempts to "correct" LGBTQ+ identities. Using feminist bioethics, I will examine how this framing can erase lived experiences and support harmful ideas of genetic determinism. I’ll also draw on public health ethics to consider issues of justice, non-maleficence, and the potential misuse of this research in pathologizing queer communities. This topic is deeply personal to me and raises important questions about the direction and impact of human genetics research.
Her response: Do keep in mind that your topic will likely need to shift as you do research as, is there a current technology that claims to have identified a "gay gene"? Your paper needs to focus on a specific genetic technology so I recommend examining the literature to see what technology exists. I look forward to seeing how your topic shifts once you start looking into scholarly sources.
Make sure that these sources will be fully on topic with some sort of very specific genetic technology that claims to identify a "gay gene."