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Eugenics (Search for Eugenics) concerns the scientific knowledge of the laws of sex, life and heredity.
In the Name of Eugenics Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity:
At the end of the 20th century, biotechnological techniques and other agendas are making forms of human eugenics plausible. Rich in anecdote, narrative, and fact. An important book.
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Morning sickness is regarded as one of the most reliable early symptoms. If it appears at all, it generally occurs within three weeks, and may present itself within a few days after conception. This derangement of the stomach • is manifested in various ways. Frequently there is great loathing of food, nausea of a most distressing character, and vomiting of anything taken into the stomach, particularly in the morning. Many women, however, are never troubled with the morning sickness. There is also in some cases a certain longing for unusual articles of food, and when not gratified in her fancies, the individual exhibits such disappointment that it is certainly better to indulge her vagaries, when not positively injurious. Usually all disturbances of the stomach disappear by the third or fourth month, the appetite becomes regular and the digestion good, and the whole body takes on an appearance of bloom and health.
by Angelique Richardson
Love and Eugenics among the Late Victorians is a fascinating, lucid, and controversial study of the centrality of eugenic debate to the Victorians. Reappraising the operation of social and sexual power in Victorian society and fiction, it makes a radical contribution to English studies, nineteenth-century and gender studies, and the history of science.
Our Posthuman Future Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama (Author)
A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of “the end of history,” Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fukuyama sketches a brief history of man’s changing understanding of human nature: from Plato and Aristotle to the modernity’s utopians and dictators who sought to remake mankind for ideological ends. Fukuyama argues that the ability to manipulate the DNA of all of one person’s descendants will have profound, and potentially terrible, consequences for our political order, even if undertaken with the best of intentions. In Our Posthuman Future, one of our greatest social philosophers begins to describe the potential effects of genetic exploration on the foundation of liberal democracy: the belief that human beings are equal by nature.
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