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Genetic Enhancement Technologies And The New Society, George P. Smith Ii
Genetic Enhancement Technologies And The New Society, George P. Smith Ii
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So long as procreation continues to remain a central driving force in a marital relationship, and the family the very core of progressive society, efforts will be undertaken to expand the period of fecundity and combat infertility. Genetic planning and eugenic programming are more rational and humane alternatives to population regulation than death by famine and war.
Genetic enhancement technologies and the scientific research undertaken to advance them should be viewed as not only aiding (or, sometimes resolving) the tragedy of infertility in family planning, but as a tool for enhancing the health of a Nation's citizens by engineering man's …
Genetic Determinism Or Genetic Discrimination, George P. Smith Ii
Genetic Determinism Or Genetic Discrimination, George P. Smith Ii
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The first part of this essay evaluates the contemporary focus of the genetic revolution seen as such through the Human Genome Initiative - a project which brings not only great hope for new advancements of genetic knowledge designed to control disease and minimize human suffering, but raises real fears of unabated invasions of personal privacy that in turn would lead to discrimination for those found to be genetically handicapped. The extent to which this central fear is justified or rational is justified within the present context of the Genome Initiative, together with the past practices of genetic screening, will then …
Accessing Genomic Information For Nonmedical Purposes, George P. Smith Ii
Accessing Genomic Information For Nonmedical Purposes, George P. Smith Ii
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Genetics, Eugenics, And Public Policy, George P. Smith Ii
Genetics, Eugenics, And Public Policy, George P. Smith Ii
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