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personal rights that legislating
for
eugenic measures appears to be” (Rollin D.
Hotchkiss, “Portents for a Genetic Engineering,”
Journal of Heredity
56 [1965]:
198).
4. Bryan Appleyard,
Brave New Worlds: Staying Human in the Genetic Future
(New York: Viking, 1998), 84.
5. Jeremy Rifkin, cited in ibid., 128. See also Richard Wright, “Achilles' Helix,”
New Republic
(July 9 and 16, 1990): 21-31; Andrew Kimbrell,
The Human
Body Shop: The Cloning, Engineering, and Marketing of Life
, 2nd ed.
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 1997), 147; Mae-Wan Ho,
Genetic Engineering:
Dream or Nightmare? Turning the Tide on the Brave New World of Bad Science
and Big Business
, 2nd ed. (New York: Continuum, 2000), 222; Jean E. McEwen,
“Public and Private Eugenics,”
GeneWatch
12 (June 1999): 1-3; and Mark
Frankel, “Inheritable Genetic Modification and a Brave New World: Did Huxley
Have It Wrong?”
Hastings Center Report
33 (2003): 32-33.
6. Peter Morton,
The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination
(London: George All and Unwin, 1984), 121.
7. Francis Fukuyama,
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotech-
nology Revolution
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002); Bill McKibben,
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
(New York: Henry Holt, 2003);
and Jürgen Habermas,
The Future of Human Nature
(Cambridge, UK: Polity
Press, 2003).
8. Lee M. Silver,
Remaking Eden
(New York: Avon, 1997), and “Reprogenet-
ics: How Reprogenetic and Genetic Technologies Will Be Combined to Provide
New Opportunities for People to Reach Their Reproductive Goals,” in
Engi-
neering the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Alter-
ing the Genes We Pass on to Our Children
, ed. Gregory Stock and John Campbell
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 57-71; Gregory Stock,
Redesigning
Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002);
Gregory Pence,
Re-creating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine
(Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000); and Peter Sloterdijk,
Regeln für
den Menschenpark: ein Antwortschreiben zu Heideggers Brief den Humanismus
(Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1999).
9. Morton,
Vital Science
, 129.
10. J. B. S. Haldane, “Daedalus, or Science and the Future,” in
Haldane's
“Daedalus” Revisited
, ed. Krishna R. Dronamraju (1923; repr., Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1995).
11. Watson Davis, ed.,
The Advance of Science
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1934), 275.
12. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, cited in Wendy Kline,
Building a Better Race:
Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 12.
13. Francis Galton, “The Possible Improvement of the Human Breed, under the
Existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment,” in
Essays in Eugenics
(London:
Eugenics Education Society, 1909), 24.
