Tag: Genetics and Eugenics

As a 21st century society, we are being forced to grapple with the ethical questions surrounding some of the leading scientific discoveries in human history, particularly in the area of genetic research. The current wave in...

James Hughes, Ph.D, teaches Health Policy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and serves as Executive Director of the World Transhumanist Association. (This review is from betterhumans.com, 1/12/05) James Hughes may be a...

How Much is an Embryo Worth? Imagine one day your spouse tells you, I could see you three different ways. First, you are someone I see as equal to me. Second, I could view you as a clump of cells. Or third, you are someone who...

1. Why did you write Preaching Eugenics? Was there a big overarching questions you were attempting to answer? I wrote Preaching Eugenics because I thought it was important to describe this unknown part of our eugenic past. I...

Movies like Bicentennial Man, AI, Simone and most recently, I Robot have gripped the public’s imagination. But just how much of what is depicted in these films is Hollywood sensationalism? Will robots soon live amongst us,...

(from nationalreview.com) Doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital admitted that they surgically removed a six-year-old girl’s healthy uterus, breast buds, and appendix, and then subjected her to two years of high-dose...

Richard Weikart has provided bioethicists with an excellent resource in From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). He summarizes the writings of many...

From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany. Weikart’s book elucidates the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. Weikart demonstrates that many leading Darwinian...