Hot house people

can we create super human beings?

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Hot house people

can we create super human beings?

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Have we the power to create 'super people'? If we can do it, should we do it? Hot House People looks at the evidence, the case-histories, the 'human experiments', and examines efforts in many parts of the world to maximize the potential of children, and to increase life-expectancy. There is a growing determination to produce the best, the brightest -- and the oldest.

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Publisher
Pan
Language
English
Pages
240

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Cover of: Hothouse People (A Channel Four book)
Hothouse People (A Channel Four book)
November 6, 1987, Pan Books
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Cover of: Hot house people
Hot house people: can we create super human beings?
1987, Pan
in English

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First Sentence

"The idea of 'hot housing' -- enhancing the mental and physical faculties of 'average people' -- is familiar to any reader of science fiction. It now appears that recent developments in a range of fields (such as education and biogenetics) may soon combine to turn fantasies into possibilities."

Table of Contents

1. Intelligence: The Great Debate Page 13
2. Hot Housing: Is it ever too early to start? Page 30
3. Case Studies: The Hot House Flowers Page 52
4. Poor Kids can be Geniuses, Too Page 72
5. Is Everybody Happy? Page 100
6. The Hot House Child Grows Up Page 120
7. Future Think: Babies in Bottles? Page 137
8. The Best of British Page 158
9. I'm Gonna Live For Ever Page 175
10. The Presiden's Brain is Missing! Page 192
11. Finally, We Bring You the Secrets of Life . . . or You are What You Eat Page 206
Introduction. Page 7
Bibliography. Page 238
Index. Page 239

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p238. - Includes index.

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London
Series
A Channel Four book
Genre
Psychology

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
371.95
Library of Congress
LC3993

The Physical Object

Pagination
240p. ;
Number of pages
240

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22517578M
ISBN 10
0330299549
OCLC/WorldCat
24668423
Library Thing
1578781
Goodreads
811605

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