UTOPIAN GENETICS?
Genetic Medicine: Past, Present and Future
“You wait till Larry comes and I tell him my theory!” The bids, duly sealed, were given into the keeping of the commissary officer to be put in his safe, and kept until the day of judgment, when all being opened in public and in the presence of the aspirants, the lowest would[Pg 188] get the contract. It was a simple plan, and gave no more opportunity for underhand work than could be avoided. But there were opportunities for all that. It was barely possible—the thing had been done—for a commissary clerk or sergeant, desirous of adding to his pittance of pay, or of favoring a friend among the bidders, to tamper with the bids. By the same token there was no real reason why the commissary officer could not do it himself. Landor had never heard, or known, of such a case, but undoubtedly the way was there. It was a question of having the will and the possession of the safe keys. "Well, I believe our boys 's all right. They're green, and they're friskier than colts in a clover field, but they're all good stuff, and I believe we kin stand off any ordinary gang o' guerrillas. I'll chance it, anyhow. This's a mighty valuable train to risk, but it ought to go through, for we don't know how badly they may need it. You tell your engineer to go ahead carefully and give two long whistles if he sees anything dangerous." "Fine-looking lot of youngsters," he remarked. "They'll make good soldiers." "That's just what he was, the little runt, and we had the devil's own time finding him. What in Sam Hill did the Captain take him for, I'd like to know? Co. Q aint no nursery. Well, the bugler up at Brigade Headquarters blowed some sort of a call, and Skidmore wanted to know what it meant. They told him that it was an order for the youngest man in each company to come up there and get some milk for his coffee tomorrow morning, and butter for his bread. There was only enough issued for the youngest boys, and if he wanted his share he'd have to get a big hustle on him, for the feller whose nose he'd put out o' joint 'd try hard to get there ahead o' him, and get his share. So Skidmore went off at a dead run toward the sound of the bugle, with the boys looking after him and snickering. But he didn't come back at roll-call, nor at tattoo, and the smart Alecks begun to get scared, and abuse each other for setting up a job on a poor, innocent little boy. Osc Brewster and Ol Perry, who had been foremost in the trick had a fight as to which had been to blame. Taps come, and he didn't get back, and then we all became scared. I'd sent Jim Hunter over to Brigade Headquarters to look for him, but he came back, and said they hadn't seen anything of him there. Then I turned out the whole company to look for him. Of course, them too-awfully smart galoots of Co. A had to get very funny over our trouble. They asked why we didn't get the right kind of nurses for our company, that wouldn't let the members stray out of their sight? Why we didn't call the children in when the chickens went to roost, undress 'em, and tuck 'em in their little beds, and sing to 'em after they'd said 'Now I lay me down to sleep?' I stood it all until that big, hulking Pete Nasmith came down with a camp-kettle, which he was making ring like a bell, as he yelled out, 'Child lost! Child lost!' Behind him was Tub Rawlings singing, 'Empty's the cradle, baby's gone.' Then I pulled off my blouse and slung it into my tent, and told 'em there went my chevrons, and I was simply Scott Ralston, and able to lick any man in Co. A. One o' their Lieutenants came out and ordered them back to their quarters, and I deployed the company in a skirmish-line, and started 'em through the brush toward Brigade Headquarters. About three-quarters o' the way Osc Brewster and Ol Perry, when going through a thicket, heard a boy boo-hooing. They made their way to him, and there was little Skidmore sitting on a stump, completely confused and fagged out. He'd lost his way, and the more he tried to find it the worse he got turned around. They called out to him, and he blubbered out: 'Yes, it's me; little Pete Skidmore. Them doddurned fools in my company 've lost me, just as I've bin tellin' 'em right along they would, durn 'em.' Osc and Ol were so tickled at finding him that they gathered him up, and come whooping back to camp, carrying him every step of the way." And the rush stopped. Cadnan waited for a second, but there was no more. "Dara is not to die," he said. Then he saw Orion hanging over him, very low in the windy sky, shaking with frost. His eyes fixed themselves on the constellation, then gradually he became aware of the sides of a cart, of the smell of straw, of the movement of other bodies that sighed and stirred beside him. The physical experience was now complete, and soon the emotional had shaped itself. Memory came, rather sick. He remembered the fight, his terror, the flaming straw, the crowd that constricted and crushed him like a snake. His rage and hate rekindled, but this time without focus—he hated just everyone and everything. He hated the wheels which jolted him, his body because it was bruised, the other bodies round him, the stars that danced above him, those unknown footsteps that tramped beside him on the road. Farewell to Jane and Caroline!" HoME大香蕉色人阁 ENTER NUMBET 0017REFERENCES
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- Apolipoprotein
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- Artificial chromosome
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- ASPM gene
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- Bioethics
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- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- Charles Davenport (1866-1944)
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- Christian perspectives
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- Cognitive genetics
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- Commercialisation/prenatal enhancement
- COMT - a "happiness gene"? (pdf)
- COMT/altruism (pdf)
- Congenital anaesthesia
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- 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
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- 'Designer babies'
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- Disc1 gene
- DNA sequencing
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- Down syndrome
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- Embryonic stem cells
- Empathy/genetics
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- Enhanced children
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- Enkephalin production/gene therapy
- Epigenetics
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- 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
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- Genomic imprinting
- Genomic risk
- 'Genospirituality'
- Germline engineering/future generations
- Germline genetic engineering
- 'God gene'
- Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
- Gregory Stock
- Haemophilias
- HapMap
- Hedonic Treadmill
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- Human evolution
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- Human Genome Project
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- Hypertension
- Inbreeding/Habsburg
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- 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
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- Marfan syndrome
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- Microcephalin gene
- Modern Synthesis
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- Myocardial infarction
- Nanopore sequencing
- 'Negative' and 'positive' eugenics
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- Neurofibromatosis
- Neutralism vs adaptationism
- Nicholas Agar
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- 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
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- Privacy/genetic testing
- Private eugenics
- Procreative liberty
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- Proteus syndrome
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- Richard Dawkins (1941- )
- RNA/epigenetic inheritance
- RNA interference therapeutics
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- Sirt1
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- Theragnostics
- 'Thrifty phenotype'
- Transhumanism/Brave New world?
- Turner syndrome
- Ubiquitous sequencing
- Unipolar mania
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- Watson and Crick/DNA double helix
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- '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
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