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HAVE WE THE POWER TO CREATE 'SUPER PEOPLE'? IF WE CAN DO IT, SHOULD WE DO IT?
Take a tomato, grow it under controlled conditions, tend it intensively and protect it from the world outside. The result is flawless and red, the best of its kind. How does it taste? That is less certain.
What, then, if the same technique is applied to human beings? Can we turn up the temperature and create more perfect people? Can systematic hot hothousing - intensive care and training from the moment of birth - produce higher intelligence in children, or reliably prolong life in adults?
HOT HOUSE PEOPLE look at the evidence, the case-histories, the 'human experiments', and examine 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.
ISBN:9780330299541
