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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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Owing to the direct and intimate sympathy existing between the uterus and breasts, pregnancy is generally indicated by changes in the latter organs. They may become somewhat painful and swollen, the nipple is elevated, and the areola, or circle around it, assumes a dark brown hue, and is dotted with small tubercles. The nipple enlarges, and as pregnancy advances milk can be forced from it by pressure. Milk in the breasts, however minute in quantity, is a pretty_ sure sign, especially in a first pregnancy. Great importance is attached to the increased darkness in the color of the circle around the nipple, and it is a sign which rarely fails; like all presumptive signs of early pregnancy, though, it can hardly be relied upon alone.
Besides the changes in the nipple and the enlargement of the breast, the veins look more blue, and the whole substance is firmer and more knotty to the touch.
Enlargement of the abdomen, though an invariable accompaniment of pregnancy, can not positively be relied upon as a symptom, as other causes may produce it; besides, in many cases the development of the abdomen is not observed till rather late.
It may be occasioned by various causes. Instances are quite common where women have made careful preparation forconfinement, only to be disappointed by finding they were suffering from some serious disease causing suppression of the menses.
From the third to the eighth month the abdomen continues to enlarge.
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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