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In our own image : eugenics and the genetic modification of people.
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ISBN: 0316855928 Year: 2001 Publisher: London Little, Brown

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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.


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Eugenetiek : historisch critisch overzicht
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Year: 1920 Publisher: Varsseveld : Van Deutekom,

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Eugenics --- Eugenics. --- Eugénisme --- History. --- Histoire.

Sex, race, and science : eugenics in the deep South
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ISBN: 0801849381 Year: 1995 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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Eugenik und Dysgenik : ein Versuch
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Year: 1914 Publisher: Wiesbaden. : Bergmann.,

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Neue Grenzen: Rassismus am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts
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ISBN: 3854491093 9783854491095 Year: 1997 Publisher: Wien Sonderzahl

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The science and politics of racial research
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ISBN: 0252020995 Year: 1994 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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Losses of life in modern wars, Austria-Hungary, France
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ISBN: 065991221X 9780659912213 Year: 1916 Publisher: Oxford : Toronto : Clarendon Press ; H. Milford,

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Natural selection, heredity, and eugenics : including selected correspondence of R. A. Fisher with Leonard Darwin and others
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ISBN: 0198581777 9780198581772 Year: 1983 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

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Biologismus und Kulturkritik : eugenische Diskurse der Moderne
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ISBN: 9783826052880 3826052889 Year: 2014 Publisher: Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann,

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The case against perfection: ethics in the age of genetic engineering
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ISBN: 9780674019270 067401927X 9780674036383 0674036387 0674043065 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press

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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.

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