Books

• Making It New: Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, senior coeditor with Ruth Schwartz Cowan, chief editor Harry Evans (Starbright Media, forthcoming)
• Living Properties: Making Knowledge and Controlling Ownership in the History of Biology, coeditor with Jean-Paul Gaudilliere and Hans-Joerg Rheinberger (Preprint No. 382; Berlin: Max Planck Institute for History of Science, 2009)
• Inventing America: A History of the United States, coauthored with Alex Keyssar, Pauline Maier, and Merritt Roe Smith (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002; 2nd edition 2006)
• The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character; (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998)
• Le Scienze Biologiche e la Medicina, coedited with Gilberto Corbellini, in Storia della Scienza, Vol. VIII, director, Sandro Petruccioli (Rome: Istituto delia Enciclopedia Italiana, 2004) pp. 659-953
• The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project, edited with Leroy Hood Harvard University Press, 1992; (paperback, 1993); published in Germany (Artemis and Winkler), 1994 and in Japan (Ague Shotu-Sha), 1997.
• In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity Alfred A. Knopf, 1985; University of California Press,1986 (paperback); Harvard University Press, 1995 (paperback with new preface). Also published in England (Penguin), Japan (Asahi), Spain (Editions Planeta), France (Presse Universitaire de France).
• The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Vintage, 1979 (paperback); Harvard University Press, 1987,1995. Also published in France (Paris: Anthropos,1988).

       Articles

• "From Eugenics to Patents: Genetics, Law, and Human Rights," Annals of Human Genetics, forthcoming, late summer, 2010
• "An American Passion Revealed," [essay review of Philip Pauly's Fruits and Plain], The New York Review of Books, May 13, 2010, pp. 53-55
• "New Blood, New Fruits: Protections for Breeders and Originators, 17898-1930," in Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee, eds., Emergent IP: Rethinking Authorship and Inventorship (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, 2010)
• "Genes, Railroads, and Regulation: Intellectual Property and the Public Interest," in Mario Biagioli and Jessica Riskin, eds., Worldly Science: Instruments, Practices, and the Law (forthcoming: New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010)
• "Heredity Produced," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 39 (No. 4, 2009), 482-490 [an essay review]
• "Eugenics, the Genome, and Human Rights," Medicine Studies, I(No. 2, 2009), 85-93 (an expanded version of the article with the same title below)
• "Martyred by Monsters," [essay review of Peter Pringle, The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century (2008)], The New York Review of Books, October 9, 2008, pp. 21-23; reprinted as "Nikolai Vavilov, martry russe de la genetique," La Recherche, mars 2009, pp. 56-60
• Eugenics, the Genome, and Human Rights, in Michael Yudell and Rob DeSalle, eds., The Genomic Revolution: Unveling the Unity of Life (Washington, D.C.: Jospeh Henry Press, with the American Museum of Natural History, 2002), 147-154
• "The Contested Earth: Science, Equity, and the Environment," Daedalus, (spring 2008), pp. 80-95
• "Fruit Nationalism: Horticulture in the United States from the Revolution to the First Centennial," in Aurora Torealis: Studies in the History of Science and Ideas in Honor of Tore Frangsmyr, eds. M. Beretta, K. Grandin & S. Lindqvist (Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2008), pp. 129-146
• "Foreword," to Nathaniel Comfort, Ed., The Panda's Black Box: The Intelligent Design Controversy (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2007), pp. ix-xv
• "The Poor Man's Atomic Bomb," New York Review of Books, April 12, 2007, pp. 60-63
• "Howard Temin: Rebel of Evidence and Reason," in Oren Harman and Michael Dietrich, eds., Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (Yale U. Press, 2008) pp. 248-264
• "Protections, Privileges, and Patents: Intellectual Property in American Horticulture," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 152 (June 2008), 207-13
• "Patents, Protections, and Privileges: Intellectual Property Protection in Animals and Plants," Isis, June 2007, pp. 323-331
• "Genes, Disease, and Patents: Cash and Community in Biomedicine," in Caroline Hannaway, ed., Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2008), pp. 203-216
• "Max Delbruck," Dictionary of Scientific Biography (forthcoming, 2008)
• "What's New About the Politics of Science?" Social Research, 73(Fall 2006)
• "The Blame Game," The New Republic, Oct. 17, 2005, pp. 35-41 [essay review of Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, American Prometheus: A Biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer]
• "Dr. Atomic: An opera about the moral complexities of Hiroshima," Slate, Oct. 19, 2005 [essay review of John Adams and Peter Sellars' opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer]
• "Scientists, Arms, and the State: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Twentieth Century," Berkeley Papers in the History of Science (Berkeley, CA: Office for the History of Science and Technology, 2005)
• "The Gene Wars," The New Republic, May 2&9, 2005, pp. 33-37 [essay review of Oren Harman, The Man Who Invented the Chromosome]
• "Albert Einstein: Relativity, War, and Fame," in A Century of Books: Princeton University Press, 1905-2005 (Princeton Univ. Press, 2005), pp. 115-24: a different version published as "Einstein's Devils," Times Literary Supplement, May 13, 2005, pp. 3-4
• "L'Affaire Baltimore: Politique, Justice, et Accusation de Fraude Scientifique," in Distionnaire de la Pensee Medicale, sous la direction de Dominique Lecourt (Paris: PUF, 2004), 12-17
• International Eugenics, in Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Holocaust Museum, 2004), pp. 41-60