Religious Metaphors as a Justification for Eugenic Control: A Historical Analysis

Abstract

In conjunction with efforts to complete the mapping of the Human Genome, writings that detail the prospective benefits or fears that may accompany genetic innovations have been plentiful in popular literature and other media. Advocates and opponents of such innovations, as well as more neutral observers, have employed numerous metaphoric themes in order to describe issues such as genetic engineering and testing, therapeutic human cloning, and DNA testing. While such metaphors provide an important means of describing technology that few people fully understand in nontechnical language, they also carry explicit or implied meanings related to how we think about and the value accorded to persons with disabilities as well as other “nonnormative” populations. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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