Eugenics : the future of human life in the 21st century
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Eugenics : the future of human life in the 21st century
（An Abacus book）
Abacus, 2002, c2001
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In our own image
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Originally published as: In our own image(London : Little, Brown and Company , 2001)
"First published in Great Britain in 2001 by Little, Brown and Company under the title In Our Own Image" --T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 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, EUGENICS 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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