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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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The female fish lays her eggs in shallow water. The male, swimming several feet or yards behind the female expells from his body the many sperm cells which are to be used in fertilizing the eggs. It will be observed that there is no sexual contact between the male and female fish at the time the eggs are fertilized. Several days before this event, these fish might have been seen on the riffles, or in deep water, swimming along side of against and over each other. Many mistake the action of the fish at this period for mating. They are not mating, they are love-making. Sexual 'excitement is necessary to the development of the eggs in the ovaries of the female, and especially for the generation of thousands of sperm cells by the male. From this we see that the function of these demonstrations among fish is sexual excitement.
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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