Cyber Eugenics

Author : Bernard Amador
Publisher : Bernard Amador
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434854070

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Cyber-Eugenics by Bernard Amador Pdf

In her search for Hans Barskova, a Teaching Assistant at MIT, Eliza Boria learns that the neural code was deciphered by the United States government and the technology to create computer-controlled humans ("Cybernatons") was tested in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Eliza discovers her grandmother, Bernice Figueroa, traveled to Russia with Norbert Weiner during his lectures on cybernetics and planted the idea of utilizing cybernetics for the advancement of eugenics to create a master race on earth. The Soviets were part of a greater design and exploited as a prototype in the race for global control. Eliza becomes victim of the political and scientific communities who want to prevent the key mechanism of the mind from being revealed. Eliza must help the American government preserve the conspiracy and convince the world that the neural code cannot be deciphered. Eliza reveals the technology to the modern day eugenics leaders in an attempt to put a stop to their diabolical plans.

Author : Daniel J. Kevles
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Eugenics
ISBN : 0520057635

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In the Name of Eugenics by Daniel J. Kevles Pdf

Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation within the field of genetic engineering. It is rich in narrative, anecdote, attention to human detail, and stories of competition among scientists who have dominated the field.

Author : Ruth Clifford Engs
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106018143526

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The Eugenics Movement by Ruth Clifford Engs Pdf

Eugenics--the theory that we can improve future generations of humans through selective breeding--was one of the most controversial movements of the early 20th century. This encyclopedia brings into one place concise descriptions of the leading figures, organizations, events, legislation, publications, concepts, and terms of this vitally important period historical movement.

Author : Alison Bashford,Philippa Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199888290

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics by Alison Bashford,Philippa Levine Pdf

Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the "perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable core text for both teaching and research. Eugenics has accumulated generations of interest as experts attempted to connect biology, human capacity, and policy. In the past and the present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and sex, evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social implications of science. In the current climate, in which the human genome project, stem cell research, and new reproductive technologies have proven so controversial, the history of eugenics has much to teach us about the relationship between scientific research, technology, and human ethical decision-making.

Author : M. Turda
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0230230830

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Modernism and Eugenics by M. Turda Pdf

Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the individual from the anomie of modernity but equally championed a glorious racial destiny for the nation.

Author : Carl Jay Bajema,John W. Drake,Robert E. Koch
Publisher : Dowden Hutchinson and Ross
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000252562

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Eugenics by Carl Jay Bajema,John W. Drake,Robert E. Koch Pdf

Author : Bernard Amador
Publisher : Bernard Amador
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984304066

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The Hei by Bernard Amador Pdf

Ethan is a religion professor at Columbia University obsessed with Jewish mysticism whose Muslim lover, Yaqub, has been falsely accused of terrorism. Ethan's struggle to clear Yaqub's name leads him to the Holy Land where he attempts to open the ancient gates to the Temple Mount.

Author : Gunnar Broberg,Nils Roll-Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Eugenics
ISBN : UIUC:30112001149134

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Eugenics and the Welfare State by Gunnar Broberg,Nils Roll-Hansen Pdf

The history of sterilization in the Nordic countries shows the interaction between science, political ideology, and the development of social policy.

Author : John Glad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128100224

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Future Human Evolution by John Glad Pdf

Evolutionary selection has been radically relaxed in the human species as a result of the development of civilization, science in general, and medicine in particular. While these advances have hugely benefited current populations, they have to a significant degree released the species from the biological process which created it and maintains its viability. Formerly, natural selection took place largely as a result of differential mortality, but now that most people survive well beyond their child bearing years, selection is determined largely by differential fertility. Aside from genetic illnesses, this new selection is also characterized by a negative correlation between fertility and intelligencethe core of eugenic concern for over a century. Eugenics views itself as the fourth leg of the chair of civilization, the other three being a) a thrifty expenditure of natural resources, b) mitigation of environmental pollution, and c) maintenance of a human population not exceeding the planets carrying capacity. Eugenics, which can be thought of as human ecology, is thus part and parcel of the environmental movement. Humanity is defined, not as the totality of the currently living population, but as the number of people who will potentially ever live. This is a book about the struggle for human rights and parental responsibility.

Author : Bernard Amador
Publisher : Bernard Amador
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781442152847

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To Know Å Fallen Angel by Bernard Amador Pdf

To Know Å Fallen Angel is a coming of age story about a boy who tries not to become a sexual predator. Based on a true story, it is serious yet inspirational. The main theme is the ability to triumph over the lasting effects of sexual abuse. The story explains what happened to the mind of a sexually abused child, while taking the reader on an expedition through the mind of a sexual predator. The book gives the reader insight into the reality of sexual abuse, and the mind of a sexual predator.

Author : Kevin Alan Richards
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781312573697

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German Science Fiction: Student Fiction and Essays 2013-2014 by Kevin Alan Richards Pdf

This volume presents an array of creative, analytic and research work presented by students of the Popular Culture and German Literature: Science Fiction sections of the academic year 2013-2014 at the Ohio State University. This course has been evolving over the past 5 years into a highly experimental and experiential classroom that augments lectures with literary and film analysis in order to further student's critical potential. Students work with concept building, social and historical background and cultural recognition, as well as psychological analyses of texts that conclude with the creative synthesis and the committal of the day's activities to long-term memory through journaling and discussion.

Author : Bernard Amador
Publisher : Bernard Amador
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984304028

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The Rut by Bernard Amador Pdf

This novel set in the North Country of New York State explores gay adoption in an entertaining way for both gay and general audiences. Ean is a young gay man who works as a Forensic Case Manager at a social services agency, who has been married to Stacy, an Assistant District Attorney, for three years. Stacy feels compelled to adopt a child Ean names Tur (Rut spelled backwards), who is about to be placed in foster care. As their journey with Tur begins, Ean almost loses Stacy in a car accident with a male bull moose. Stacy dies suddenly after years of disability. Ean tries to start a new life with Tur without Stacy; however, he encounters many impediments ranging from suicidal thoughts to the Cinderella complex. Ean must overcome the final conflict of allowing Mark, a moose-obsessed Department of Conservation (DEC) worker, to fully enter his life or perish in loneliness. In the end, Ean triumphs as he allows Mark, a new male "bull," into his life.

Author : Stephanie Ann Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816645531

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Household Words by Stephanie Ann Smith Pdf

Looking in detail at words that “treat people as things, and things as people, and do so at that strange space where joking, ridiculing, demeaning, oppressing, resisting, and regretting converge,” Household Words is a study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history. Specifically, Stephanie A. Smith examines six words—bloomer, sucker, bombshell, scab, nigger, and cyber—and explores how these words with their contemporary “universal” meaning appeal to a dangerous idea about what it means to be human, an idea that denies our history of conflict. She traces “bombshell” from Marilyn Monroe through women’s liberation and the sexual revolution to Monica Lewinsky, “scab” from blemish to strikebreaker, “sucker” from lollipop to the routinely cheated. Exposing the ambiguities in each of the words, Smith reveals that our language is communal and cutting, democratic and discriminatory, social and psychological. Stephanie A. Smith is associate professor of English at the University of Florida and the author of Conceived by Liberty: Maternal Figures and Nineteenth-Century American Literature as well as three novels.

Author : Cindy L. Griffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Communication and sex
ISBN : 9780520297289

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Beyond Gender Binaries by Cindy L. Griffin Pdf

Beyond Gender Binaries uses a feminist, intersectional, and invitational approach to understanding identities and how they relate to communication. Taking readers outside the familiar binary constructions of gender and identity, Cindy L. Griffin addresses--through a feminist intersectional lens--communication, identity, power and privilege, personhood and citizenship, safety in public and private spaces, and hegemony and colonialism. Twelve chapters focus on critical learning through careful exploration of key terms and concepts. Griffin illustrates these with historical and contemporary examples and provides concrete guides to intersectional approaches to communication. This textbook highlights not just the ways individuals, systems, structures, and institutions use communication to privilege particular identities discursively and materially, but also the myriad ways that communication can be used to disrupt privilege and respectfully acknowledge the nonbinary and intersectional nature of every person's identity. Key features include: Intersectional approaches to explaining and understanding identities and communication are the foundation of each chapter and inform the presentation of information throughout the book. Contemporary and historical examples are included in every chapter, highlighting the intersectional nature of identity and the role of communication in our interactions with other people. Complex and challenging ideas are presented in clear, respectful, and accessible ways throughout the book.

Author : Hermínio Martins
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783088331

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The Technocene by Hermínio Martins Pdf

Hermínio Martins was one of the key pioneers of the sociology of science and technology. He published extensively in Portuguese and was recognized for his academic contributions with an honorary doctorate at Lisbon (2006) and two Portuguese Medals of Honour. Following his retirement from the University of Oxford, he wrote prolifically in English on a wide range of topics that examined the ethical and societal consequences of the commoditization of the human body and mind. These essays are deep philosophical reflections on our contemporary world, and draw extensively and eclectically upon a wide range of theoretical influences including continental philosophy, history and psychology, to name but a few disciplines. ‘The Technocene’ is a selection of some of these insightful essays, made available to a global audience for the first time.