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Making Perfect Humans

The Essay The Utopian Dream - and its Disappointments
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The Rev Canon Dr Jane Shaw of Oxford University explores the uses of eugenics and genetics in the quest for perfection.

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Wed 7 Jan 2009 23:00
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