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8) Enhanced
Author
Series
Hybrid ; 1
Publisher
Enclave Escape
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"Lee Urban is living a lie. In a society where everyone's DNA determines their destiny, being a Natural means automatic relegation to the gritty and dangerous Outskirts. With the harnessed power of gene-editing, the ability to create a super-human race has transformed the world and offered the opportunity of a genetically enhanced life. But only to those who can afford it. Born a Natural, Lee Urban was adopted into the Enhanced high society of the...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 'Blueprint', behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses from birth. A century of genetic research shows that DNA differences inherited from our parents are the consistent lifelong sources of our psychological individuality--the blueprint that makes us who we are. This, says Plomin, is a game-changer. It calls for a radical...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"In this new book, Lois Wingerson explores advances in human genetic research - and how these advances are redefining the way we view ourselves and our world." "Every week brings word of new genetic findings. On the heels of each new finding comes the capacity to test for the disorder the gene may activate, then the test itself - and then the questions. Just because the test is available, should we have it? The tests are often marketed by for-profit...
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Ranging from psychoanalyst Adam Phillips's case study of a child whose confusion of "cloning" and "clothing" expresses our mixed desire and terror of sameness, to Cass Sunstein's projections of utterly plausible Supreme Court decisions both for and against human cloning; from William Miller's analysis of the queasiness and nervous laughter the subject elicits in many of us to Richard Epstein's libertarian argument against a research ban; from Andrea...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
[This series] challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs: that humans come divided into a few distinct biological groups, telling an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs. Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always...
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Davenport's Dream: 21st Century Reflections on Heredity and Eugenics is a cautionary tale in two parts. One part is a facsimile of the first and one of the most influential textbooks on human genetics to appear in the 20th century, Charles Davenport's 1911 book Heredity in Relation to Eugenics. The other is a series of reflections by 12 eminent scholars on questions about ourselves and our humanity that preoccupied Davenport and continue to challenge...
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