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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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Why do people violate the laws of sex? Not because they are viciously bad in childhood and youth. Ignorance is responsible for the results of the broken moral law that is found in youth and middle life. The developing mind of a child leads naturally to the questions, "Where was I before I was born?" "How did I get into this world?" "Where do the babies come from?" In reply to these innocent questions, it has been customary for parents to ridicule, scold, shame, chastise or to tell the child one of many falsehoods. It is at this time and in this way that the child receives his first wrong sex impressions. Later, some ignorant and impure minded companion or servant will say to the child, "I _know something that you don't know. You would like to know it too. I will tell you, if you will promise not to tell your papa and mamma. It is where all of the little babies come from." This is just what he wants to know. However good and obedient the child may be, his curiosity is so great that he agrees not to tell. Why keep this a secret? Because a knowledge of the origin of life is held by such an informer to be sinful, and this is the impression he has made upon the child. Thus is the second wrong impression made upon the child. Such a system of teaching is as unnatural as it is false, while it is extremely degrading.
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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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