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Throughout history, people have sought to improve themselves - and society - by eliminating disease, or enhancing desirable qualities in their children. Others have imposed control over populations with rules about who can marry, who can procreate and who can live. For just over a century, we have referred to this age-old crafting by biological design with a word which became poisonous: eugenics.
The ideas underlying eugenics are not merely historical. We live in a time where forced sterilisation of women is current - including in immigration detention centres in the USA - and where sex-selective abortion is endemic in the most populous countries on Earth. In 2020, new techniques in genetics and gene editing put discussions about improving the 'quality' of the population, by selecting embryos for intelligence, at the centre of the British government. CONTROL is an urgently needed discussion exploring the science, history and future of eugenics, and the practice of population control by selective procreation.
The ideas underlying eugenics are not merely historical. We live in a time where forced sterilisation of women is current - including in immigration detention centres in the USA - and where sex-selective abortion is endemic in the most populous countries on Earth. In 2020, new techniques in genetics and gene editing put discussions about improving the 'quality' of the population, by selecting embryos for intelligence, at the centre of the British government. CONTROL is an urgently needed discussion exploring the science, history and future of eugenics, and the practice of population control by selective procreation.
Throughout history, people have sought to improve themselves - and society - by eliminating disease, or enhancing desirable qualities in their children. Others have imposed control over populations with rules about who can marry, who can procreate and who can live. For just over a century, we have referred to this age-old crafting by biological design with a word which became poisonous: eugenics.
The ideas underlying eugenics are not merely historical. We live in a time where forced sterilisation of women is current - including in immigration detention centres in the USA - and where sex-selective abortion is endemic in the most populous countries on Earth. In 2020, new techniques in genetics and gene editing put discussions about improving the 'quality' of the population, by selecting embryos for intelligence, at the centre of the British government. CONTROL is an urgently needed discussion exploring the science, history and future of eugenics, and the practice of population control by selective procreation.
The ideas underlying eugenics are not merely historical. We live in a time where forced sterilisation of women is current - including in immigration detention centres in the USA - and where sex-selective abortion is endemic in the most populous countries on Earth. In 2020, new techniques in genetics and gene editing put discussions about improving the 'quality' of the population, by selecting embryos for intelligence, at the centre of the British government. CONTROL is an urgently needed discussion exploring the science, history and future of eugenics, and the practice of population control by selective procreation.
Über den Autor
Dr Adam Rutherford is a scientist, writer and broadcaster. He has written and presented award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including Radio 4's Inside Science and The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry with Dr Hannah Fry. He is the author of Creation, shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Book of Humans, the Sunday Times bestselling How to Argue With a Racist and the co-author of Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged).
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
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Genre: | Importe, Technik allg. |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: |
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278 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781474622387 |
ISBN-10: | 1474622380 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Herstellernummer: | 807889 |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Rutherford, Adam |
Hersteller: | Orion Publishing Co |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
Maße: | 221 x 144 x 30 mm |
Von/Mit: | Adam Rutherford |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 03.02.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,398 kg |
Über den Autor
Dr Adam Rutherford is a scientist, writer and broadcaster. He has written and presented award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including Radio 4's Inside Science and The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry with Dr Hannah Fry. He is the author of Creation, shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Book of Humans, the Sunday Times bestselling How to Argue With a Racist and the co-author of Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
---|---|
Genre: | Importe, Technik allg. |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: |
X
278 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781474622387 |
ISBN-10: | 1474622380 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Herstellernummer: | 807889 |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Rutherford, Adam |
Hersteller: | Orion Publishing Co |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
Maße: | 221 x 144 x 30 mm |
Von/Mit: | Adam Rutherford |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 03.02.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,398 kg |
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