Nathaniel Comfort, PhD, Professor, Department of the History of Medicine,. Johns Hopkins University

Since at least the time of Plato, humans have imagined worlds in which they could improve the race, through controlling marriage, sex, reproduction, birth, genes, DNA. Tracing the longue durée history of human hereditary improvement reveals the anxieties, the thirst for power and social control, the techno-optimism, and the scientism behind hereditary utopias down through the ages.

Seminar on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetics

Monday, June 13, 2022 •  12:00 pm – 1:00pm

To register and receive the Zoom link, please email Alfa Garcia