The Eugenics Code How the Quest for Perfect Humans Never Ended (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Serena Capuozzo, 2026
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Paperback. In November 2018, a video appeared online that should not have been possible.A scientist in a lab coat, speaking calmly to a camera, announced something no doctor had ever dared claim before: he had rewritten the DNA of two human babies before they were born. Not treated a disease. Not managed a condition. Rewritten. Edited, at the molecular level, in a way that would pass to their children, and their children's children, forever.The world reacted with shock. But it shouldn't have been surprising.This moment, a fertility clinic in Shenzhen, China, quietly crossing a line that scientists had spent decades agreeing never to cross, wasn't the beginning of something new. It was the latest chapter in a story that started 135 years earlier, in the study of a Victorian gentleman who believed humanity could be improved the same way a breeder improves livestock.His name was Francis Galton. He called his idea eugenics. And he had no idea what he was about to unleash.This is the story of an idea that refuses to die.It's the story of a word invented to build a smarter Britain, and the countries that twisted it into something far darker. It's the story of forced sterilizations in American mental institutions, of stolen children in Australia, of a bureaucratic nightmare in Nazi Germany that turned human beings into laboratory specimens. It's the story of Josef Mengele's twin experiments at Auschwitz, of doctors who believed they were perfecting the human race one mutilated body at a time, and who, in the chaos of a collapsing regime, walked away without ever facing justice.And then, just when the world believed it had buried this history for good, it's the story of how a single scientist, armed with a $75 gene-editing kit and a genuine desire to help, picked up the thread again. Using CRISPR, a tool so precise it can rewrite a single letter in three billion lines of genetic code, He Jiankui didn't need a totalitarian government or a concentration camp. He needed a lab, seven volunteer couples, and the same ancient conviction that has haunted this idea since 1883: We can build a better human being. We have to be willing to try.What happens when that conviction meets modern technology?The Eugenics Code traces this idea across 140 years and four continents, from a gentleman's study in Victorian London, to the operating tables of Auschwitz, to a laboratory in twenty-first-century China, revealing a truth more unsettling than any single villain or atrocity: Eugenics was never defeated. It just kept changing its name, waiting for science to catch up to its ambitions.This book asks the question that history keeps circling back to, and that none of us can afford to ignore any longer: Now that we finally have the tools to edit our own species, will we ever be able to stop? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Título
- The Eugenics Code How the Quest for Perfect Humans Never Ended (Paperback)
- Autor
- Julia Wolbrook
- Editorial
- Serena Capuozzo
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798235599901
In November 2018, a video appeared online that should not have been possible.
A scientist in a lab coat, speaking calmly to a camera, announced something no doctor had ever dared claim before: he had rewritten the DNA of two human babies before they were born. Not treated a disease. Not managed a condition. Rewritten. Edited, at the molecular level, in a way that would pass to their children, and their children's children, forever.
The world reacted with shock. But it shouldn't have been surprising.
This moment, a fertility clinic in Shenzhen, China, quietly crossing a line that scientists had spent decades agreeing never to cross, wasn't the beginning of something new. It was the latest chapter in a story that started 135 years earlier, in the study of a Victorian gentleman who believed humanity could be improved the same way a breeder improves livestock.
His name was Francis Galton. He called his idea eugenics. And he had no idea what he was about to unleash.
This is the story of an idea that refuses to die.
It's the story of a word invented to build a smarter Britain, and the countries that twisted it into something far darker. It's the story of forced sterilizations in American mental institutions, of stolen children in Australia, of a bureaucratic nightmare in Nazi Germany that turned human beings into laboratory specimens. It's the story of Josef Mengele's twin experiments at Auschwitz, of doctors who believed they were perfecting the human race one mutilated body at a time, and who, in the chaos of a collapsing regime, walked away without ever facing justice.
And then, just when the world believed it had buried this history for good, it's the story of how a single scientist, armed with a $75 gene-editing kit and a genuine desire to help, picked up the thread again. Using CRISPR, a tool so precise it can rewrite a single letter in three billion lines of genetic code, He Jiankui didn't need a totalitarian government or a concentration camp. He needed a lab, seven volunteer couples, and the same ancient conviction that has haunted this idea since 1883:
We can build a better human being. We have to be willing to try.
What happens when that conviction meets modern technology?
The Eugenics Code traces this idea across 140 years and four continents, from a gentleman's study in Victorian London, to the operating tables of Auschwitz, to a laboratory in twenty-first-century China, revealing a truth more unsettling than any single villain or atrocity:
Eugenics was never defeated. It just kept changing its name, waiting for science to catch up to its ambitions.
This book asks the question that history keeps circling back to, and that none of us can afford to ignore any longer:
Now that we finally have the tools to edit our own species, will we ever be able to stop?
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