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An introduction to a controversial, yet increasingly important, scientific discipline: the attempts to improve our genetic inheritance. Reclaiming the term "eugenics" from the perverted and racially motivated, the author reasserts its origins in the improvement of our genetic constitution. In the continuing media furore over 'designer babies' and the race to complete the map of human DNA - in other words, to identify the individual genes that make us who we are - scientists and commentators rarely use the word that describes this new ethical and technical minefield: 'eugenics'. Since the horrendous experiments of Nazi death camps the word has laboured under a sinister reputation, yet those perverted and racially motivated abominations should not blind us to what eugenics really is: the use of science for the qualitative and quantitative improvement of our genetic constitution. David Galton's superbly clear-headed, sensible and accessible survey of the history, ethics and potential of this much-maligned branch of science makes fascinating reading. From Ancient Greece to Charles Darwin, Adolf Hitler and the Human Genome Project, IN OUR OWN IMAGE is a brilliant account of our struggle to change the way we are, and where that struggle might take us in the future.

eugenetica (eugenese, eugenetiek) --- eugénisme (eugénique)

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Eugenics --- Eugénisme --- History --- Eugénisme --- Eugenics. --- Southern States --- 20th century

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Sociology of minorities --- anno 1900-1999 --- Racism --- Racism - Europe --- RACISME --- EUGENISME --- IMMIGRES --- INTEGRATION --- EUROPE

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Biologists --- Eugenics. --- Genetics. --- Natural selection. --- Selection (Genetics). --- Correspondence --- Darwin, Leonard, --- Sélection naturelle --- Eugénisme --- Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, 1890-1962 --- Darwin, Leonard, 1850-1943

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Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. This work explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children.

Ethics of family. Ethics of sexuality --- Genetic engineering --- eugenetica (eugenese, eugenetiek) --- genetische engineering (manipulatie) --- verbetergeneeskunde (mensverbetering) --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- eugénisme (eugénique) --- génie génétique (ingénierie génétique) --- médecine de l'amélioration (médecine d'amélioration) --- Moral and ethical aspects