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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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In personal interviews and correspondence the author is frequently asked, "How can I tell when I am in love?" This is an important, serious and difficult question to answer. Friendship and courtship make it possible for young people to become thoroughly acquainted with each other, and to intelligently decide whether they can and do love each other, and whether it would be wise for them to marry. Young people who fondle each other are not able to discriminate between a heart beat of love and a sex thrill of pleasure. It would require the mental acuteness of more than a Philadelphia Lawyer to distinguish between these rivals in modern courtship. Sensual desire is love's _ enemy. _ The two can not long thrive together. If sensual desire dominates, love will be destroyed and two fives will be stranded that can never command sufficient love to blend them into harmony, even by the sacred vows of marriage. Personal familiarities are a blight to courtship, cause unwise marriages and often end in divorce. If spooning could be eliminated from society, very few girls would ever fall, more men would retain their virtue, fewer mistakes would be made in the choice of a companion and the divorce mill would cease to grind.
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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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