![]() Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? situates eugenics within a specifically American context. ![]() ![]() However, such studies tend to be too broad they tend to focus on the bigger idea of eugenics-improving the human race through the science of eliminating the weak-rather than focusing on a specific historical and social context. Not to say that posthumanists have not studied the broad significances of eugenics, because they have Paul Lauritzen's article "Stem Cells, Biotechnology, and Human Rights: Implications for a Posthuman Future" and Nicholas Pethes's "Terminal Men: Biotechnological Experimentation and the Reshaping of 'The Human' in Medical Thrillers" are two such examples. While posthumanist scholars have explored topics ranging from animal rights to science fiction, they have not closely examined the cultural implications of the American eugenics movement. ![]()
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