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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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A university student, delirious with grief and crushed in spirit over a disappointment in a love affair, made an attempt to commit suicide. When he came to himself, he told of a. very romantic courtship he had carried on with a young lady the previous year; of the many delightful physical ecstasies he had experienced while holding her in his arms and when her lips met his, of the correspondence that followed during the vacation, of the heart crushing experience he was passing through due to a note he had received from her, informing him that she had discovered during vacation that she did not love him, and demanded that their engagement be broken.
She had mistaken a sex thrill for love. When apart from him during vacation, she discovered her mistake. If she had been in love with him, she would have been as conscious of that love when they were separated by weeks and miles as while with him. The young man was doubtlessly in love, but he was unwise in expressing that love through the channel of spooning.
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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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