| In Our Own Image: Eugenics and the Genetic Modification of People | Hardcoverby David J. Galton (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Diane Pub Co | | Page Count: | 300 Pages | | Publication Date: | January 01, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 4,024,806th |
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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 accessible survey of the history, ethics and potential of this much-maligned branch of science aims to reclaim the term. From Ancient Greece to Charles Darwin, Adolf Hitler and the Human Genome Project, "Eugenics" is an account of our struggle to change the way we are, and where that struggle might take us in the future. |
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THE BRAVE NEW WORLD IS FINALLY HERE by Mr. Larry L. Stage  4 Stars
July 30, 2005
In the 1998-2004 time-frame, the 1931 book--The Brave New World
caome true with the successful "reading" of the Human Genomic
DNA super-structure. We do NOT have to wait to create the
Alphas, and Betas and other neo-Huxleyian sub-stratum, envisioned for the late 27th Century. We can do it in the 2005-
2028 time-frame.
It's is true Social Darwinism in a test-tube. The book I am reviewing-The Future of Human Life In The 21st Century should be
regarded as a not-so-subtle warning of what Science can do, with
the best of intentions, but with results that may very well
"backfire". The 1997 movie "Gattaca", with it's prophecy of
Pre-Natal Genetic Determinism, is within 3-to-6 years of being
SCIENCE FACT. Cloning is NOT the way, as the person being
"cloned" passes along recessive genetic traits. The "answer",
so to speak, will be some form of "Designer People", like in
"Gattaca". Population Control is a "MUST" for the 21st and
22nd Centuries. This does not mean an updated version of the
1935 Nuremburg Laws on Race, but the "Future" MUST be based
on certain Neo-Huxleyian Concepts, with a "dash" of a humane
"Gattaca" scenario. The Brave New World is here. We must be
BRAVE in it in, and beyond, the 21st Century.
Already, Community. Stability, and Identity, the slogan of
the Huxleyian Brave New World, exists now. The "herd" is replacing the Individual. Elitism controls our two main political parties.Forget the conspiracy-mongers: we are all
a part of this "Nirvana" of the Facelessness.
The World will be just be "one happy corporation", dumbed-down,
and "drugged down".
I recommend The Future of Human Life In The 21st Century!!
DR. Nick Stage-PHD.
Zionsville, Indiana
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