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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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Many people who subscribe themselves in their letters "your sincere friend," are not acquainted with what may seem the odd derivation of the adjective sincere. It is from two Latin words, sine, without, and cera, wax. What such a derivation can have to do with the virtue of sincerity is rather puzzling when we first think of it, but after reflecting that one of the meanings of sincerity is purity and that honey from which all the wax has been strained is called pure honey, we seem to have rather more light on the subject. A friend whose regard for us is pure, or, to use a more suitable word, is genuine, is a friend who may be trusted. Such friends make no professions that they do not mean.
This is part of "Eugenics And The Beginning Of Life According To The Laws Of Sex, Life, And Heredity" See also:
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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