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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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General Rules.—Some excellent popular volumes have been largely devoted to directions how to secure a comfortable period of pregnancy and painless delivery.
With a little common sense on the part of the woman, all may be summed up under the simple heads of: 1. An unconfined and lightly burdened waist. 2. Moderate but persistent outdoor exercise, of which walking is the best form. 3. A plain, unstimulating, chiefly fruit and vegetable diet. 4. Little or no intercourse during the time.
These are hygienic rules of benefit under any ordinary conditions; yet they are violated by almost every pregnant lady. If hygienic rules are followed, biliousness, indigestion, constipation, swollen limbs, morning sickness and nausea, all will absent themselves or be much lessened.
The above is a statement in a "nut-shell" of the whole matter of painless child-birth labor; but for emphasis we add some definite information.
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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