strategy
Employing eugenics
Synonyms:
Breeding humansUsing selective human breeding
Imposing eugenic constraints on childbearing
Description:
Breeding human beings selectively to improve the genetic characteristics and for limiting the transmission of hereditary disease to future generations. While a great deal of research needs to be done to increase the effect of current methods of eugenics, there are four basic positive methods currently being used: artificial insemination; "sperm banks"; "heteronomous fertilization"; and arranged marriages. Cloning may be possible in the future. This, and implants, artificial organs, test-tube babies and other medical technology suggests, in addition to breeding, the manufacturing of humans. Preventive eugenic methods are also used: limiting marriages among those with similar genetic problems, limiting marriage among close relatives, and sterilization of people with undesirable characteristics.
Claim:
The logical outcome of human history and development is for man to create clones of himself.
Counter Claim:
This is an extremely emotionally charged area, which can result in the loss of the ability to implement its practice.
Broader:
Breeding organisms Narrower:
Improving blood lines Constrained by:
Reducing discriminatory improvement of racial purity Facilitates:
Breeding Facilitated by:
Mapping the human genomeProtecting the human genome Problems:
Human eugenicsSubjects:
Agriculture, Fisheries → BreedingBiosciences → Genetics
Mankind → Human
Social Activity → Employers
Societal Problems → Restrictions
Society → Maternity, paternity
Type Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
