UTOPIAN GENETICS?
Genetic Medicine: Past, Present and Future
"'I'll make old vases for you if you want them—will make them just as I made these.' He had visions of a room full of golden brown beard. It was the most appalling thing he had ever witnessed, and there was no trickery about it. The beard had actually grown before his eyes, and it had now reached to the second button of the Clockwork man's waistcoat. And, at any moment, Mrs. Masters might return! "Worth stealing," a Society journalist lounging by remarked. "I could write a novel, only I can never think of a plot. Your old housekeeper is asleep long ago. Where do you carry your latchkey?" "Never lose your temper," he said. "It leads to apoplexy. Ah, my fine madam, you thought to pinch me, but I have pinched you instead." How does that strike you, Mr. Smith? Fancy Jerusha Abbott, (individually) ever pat me on the head, Daddy? I don't believe so-- The confusion was partly inherited from Aristotle. When discussing the psychology of that philosopher, we showed that his active Nous is no other than the idea of which we are at any moment actually conscious. Our own reason is the passive Nous, whose identity is lost in the multiplicity of objects with which it becomes identified in turn. But Aristotle was careful not to let the personality of God, or the supreme Nous, be endangered by resolving it into the totality of substantial forms which constitute Nature. God is self-conscious in the strictest sense. He thinks nothing but himself. Again, the subjective starting-point of305 Plotinus may have affected his conception of the universal Nous. A single individual may isolate himself from his fellows in so far as he is a sentient being; he cannot do so in so far as he is a rational being. His reason always addresses itself to the reason of some one else—a fact nowhere brought out so clearly as in the dialectic philosophy of Socrates and Plato. Then, when an agreement has been established, their minds, before so sharply divided, seem to be, after all, only different personifications of the same universal spirit. Hence reason, no less than its objects, comes to be conceived as both many and one. And this synthesis of contradictories meets us in modern German as well as in ancient Greek philosophy. 216 "I shall be mighty glad when we git this outfit to Chattanoogy," sighed Si. "I'm gittin' older every minute that I have 'em on my hands." "What was his name?" inquired Monty Scruggs. "Wot's worth while?" "Rose, Rose—my dear, my liddle dear—you d?an't mean——" "I'm out of practice, or I shouldn't have skinned myself like this—ah, here's Coalbran's trap. Perhaps he'll give you a lift, ma'am, into Peasmarsh." Chapter 18 "The Fair-pl?ace." "Yes," replied Black Jack, "here they are," drawing a parchment from his pocket. "This is the handwriting of a retainer called Oakley." HoME大桥未久AV手机在线观看 ENTER NUMBET 0016www.hechuntang.com.cnREFERENCES
and further readingand more...
- Free genome?
- $100 genome?
- ?500 genome?
- $1000 genome?
- $5000 genome (Feb 2009)
- 5-HTTPR polymorphism/depression
- 5-HTT and AP-2beta gene polymorphism/spirituality
- Accelerating evolution?
- Achondroplasia
- ADHD/genetics
- Affective temperaments/mood disorders
- Aging/WS/HGPS
- Alzheimer's disease
- Analgesic therapies
- Angelman syndrome
- Anxiety/Lynx2 gene
- Anxiety disorders
- Apolipoprotein
- Appearance enhancement
- Artificial chromosome
- 'Artificial' evolution
- Artificial gametes
- Artificial insemination (AID)/positive eugenics
- Artistic creativity/bipolar disorder
- Ashkenazi intelligence
- Asperger's syndrome
- ASPM gene
- Assisted reproduction
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Athletic performance enhancement
- Athleticism/PEPCK-Cmus
- Autistic genetics
- Barth syndrome
- Beautyomics
- Behavioural genetics
- 'Better than well'?
- 'Beyondism'
- Biased gene conversion
- Bioethics
- Biohappiness
- Biotech future
- Bipolar II
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Canavan disease
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- Charles Davenport (1866-1944)
- China/selective sex abortion
- China's 'Yousheng' policies
- Christian perspectives
- Coeliac disease
- Cognitive genetics
- Colour vision deficiencies
- Commercialisation/prenatal enhancement
- COMT - a "happiness gene"? (pdf)
- COMT/altruism (pdf)
- Congenital anaesthesia
- Congenital insensitivity to pain
- Consumer attitudes/reproductive genetic testing
- Contraception: 'the first reproductive revolution'
- Craig Venter (video)
- Cri du chat syndrome
- 'Criminality'/genetics
- Cystic fibrosis
- Dancing genes?
- Deafness/dysgenics
- Demographic change
- Depression genetics
- Depression/genes/stress
- Depressive disorders/genetics
- 'Designer babies'
- Diabetes mellitus/gene therapy
- Disc1 gene
- DNA sequencing
- Donor insemination
- Dopamine D4 receptor gene
- Down syndrome
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Embryonic stem cells
- Empathy/genetics
- Endophenotypes/genetic analysis
- Enhanced children
- Enhancement technologies/personal identity
- Enkephalin production/gene therapy
- Epigenetics
- Epimutation/germline
- Eudaimonic/hedonic well-being
- Eugenic history
- Eugenics after Plato
- Eugenics before Galton
- Eugenics talk
- 'Eutelegenesis'
- Evolutionary ethics
- Evolutionary theory
- Fatal familial insomnia
- Fertility gene?
- Flynn Effect
- FOXP2 gene/language
- Francis Crick (1916-2004)
- Fragile X syndrome
- Francis Fukuyama (1952- )
- Francis Galton (1822-1911)
- French eugenics
- Future generations
- Francis Galton/eugenics
- Francis Galton/contemporary eugenics
- Gadd45b gene/new brain cells
- Garage geneticists
- Gay men/female fecundity
- Gender selection
- Gene doping/sport
- Gene-gene interactions/personality
- Gene therapy
- Gene therapy/performance enhancement
- Genes/neuroimaging
- Genes/psychiatric disorders
- Genes/social networks
- Gene therapy/history
- Genetic enhancement technologies
- Genetic mapping
- Genetic moral enhancement
- Genetic screening/counselling
- Genetic testing
- Genetic testing/breast cancer treatment
- Genetic testing/perils
- Genomic imprinting
- Genomic risk
- 'Genospirituality'
- Germline engineering/future generations
- Germline genetic engineering
- 'God gene'
- Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
- Gregory Stock
- Haemophilias
- HapMap
- Hedonic Treadmill
- Hemoglobinopathies/gene therapy
- Heritable mental disorders
- Homosexuality/female relative fecundity
- Human arificial chromosome
- Human cloning
- Human cloning/posthuman society
- Human diet/genetics
- Human evolution
- Human genetics/neurotransmitters
- Human genetics/society
- Human Genome Project
- Human self-domestication
- Huntingdon's disease
- Hypersociability/Williams syndrome
- Hypertension
- Inbreeding/Habsburg
- Inclusive fitness/reciprocal altruism
- India/heart disease mutant gene
- Institute for Germinal Choice ('Genius Sperm Bank')
- Insulin/IGF-like signalling/aging
- IQ-heritability
- IRAK1
- Ischaemic heart disease/genetics
- James Watson (1926- )
- Japanese eugenics
- Jealousy/sex differences
- Julian Savulescu
- Klinefelter syndrome
- Korean Eugenics
- Lactose intolerance
- Leon Kass (1939- )
- 'Liberal eugenics' (PDF)
- Liberal Eugenics (2004) by Nicholas Agar: review
- 'Life without pain. Hedonists take note' (PDF)
- Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
- MAO(A) deficiency/abnormal behaviour
- Marfan syndrome
- Mental illness/screening
- Microcephalin gene
- Modern Synthesis
- Molecular anthropology
- Mood/human nature
- Muscular dystrophy
- Mutation/genetics
- Myocardial infarction
- Nanopore sequencing
- 'Negative' and 'positive' eugenics
- 'Negative enhancement'/PGD and choosing disability
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neutralism vs adaptationism
- Nicholas Agar
- Nociception/sodium channels
- Norway/eugenic abortion
- NR2B gene/intelligence
- NURR1
- Offspring enhancement
- Older fathers/children's genetic disorders
- Oneida Community/eugenics movement
- Pain/emotion
- Painfree world
- Parkinson's disease/Parkinsonism
- PB vs 'Acceptable Suffering'
- Personal genomics
- Personal genomic medicine?
- Personalised genome sequencing
- PGD/late-onset disorders
- Phenylketonuria
- Pleiotropy/GAD/depression
- Pluripotent stem cells/reproductive revolution
- Population control
- Posthumans/germline engineering
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- Preimplantation genetics/stem cell therapy
- Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
- Preimplantation genetic screening
- Prenatal screening
- Privacy/genetic testing
- Private eugenics
- Procreative liberty
- 'Procreative beneficence' (PB)
- Progeroid syndromes
- Proteus syndrome
- Psychiatric genetics
- Race/genetics research
- Redesigning Humans
- Reprogenetics
- Richard Dawkins (1941- )
- RNA/epigenetic inheritance
- RNA interference therapeutics
- 'Saviour siblings'
- Scandinavian eugenics
- Schizophrenia
- SCID/gene therapy
- Selecting children
- Selectionism/neutralism
- Sexual orientation/genetics
- Short-rib polydactyly syndrome
- Single gene disorders
- Sirt1
- 'Slippery slope'
- Social problems biologised
- Somatic cell nuclear transfer
- Sphingolipids
- Stem cell therapy
- Sterilisation/California
- Sterilisation/ethics
- Stress/BDNF/genotypes
- Suicide genetics
- Superfluous genes?
- Superlongevity
- Theragnostics
- 'Thrifty phenotype'
- Transhumanism/Brave New world?
- Turner syndrome
- Ubiquitous sequencing
- Unipolar mania
- Vision variations
- Watson and Crick/DNA double helix
- Williams syndrome
- Williams syndrome/sociability
- Wisdom/brain
- 'Wisdom of Repuganance' (Leon Kass)
- Women's rights/HGP
- World's oldest mother
- X chromosome genes/male learning disabilities
- Xu Xiping
- XYY syndrome
- Zygotic drive
External Resourcessome books
Reproductive Medicine and our Posthuman Future
HOME
SEARCH
Resources
BLTC Research
Superhappiness?
Utopian Surgery?
The End of Suffering
Wirehead Hedonism
The Good Drug Guide
Paradise Engineering
The Abolitionist Project
The Hedonistic Imperative
The Biointelligence Explosion
MDMA: Utopian Pharmacology
The World Transhumanist Organization
Critique of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Suggested additions/updates?
e-mail : dave@bltc.com
