Hot house people
Subtitle: can we create super human beings?
By: Jane Walmsley and Jonathan Margolis.
Contributors: Margolis, Jonathan.; Channel Four Television Company.
Series: A Channel Four book
Publisher: Pan
Published: 1987
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Gifted children -- Education.
Genres: Psychology
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.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p238. - Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Intelligence: The Great Debate
pagenum: 13
class: chapter
label: 1; label: 2
pagenum: 30
class: part
title: Hot Housing: Is it ever too early to start?; label: 3
pagenum: 52
title: Case Studies: The Hot House Flowers; label: 4
pagenum: 72
title: Poor Kids can be Geniuses, Too; title: Is Everybody Happy?
pagenum: 100
label: 5; label: 6
pagenum: 120
title: The Hot House Child Grows Up; label: 7
pagenum: 137
title: Future Think: Babies in Bottles?; title: The Best of British
pagenum: 158
label: 8; title: I'm Gonna Live For Ever
pagenum: 175
label: 9; title: The Presiden's Brain is Missing!
pagenum: 192
label: 10; label: 11
pagenum: 206
title: Finally, We Bring You the Secrets of Life . . . or You are What You Eat; pagenum: 7
label: Introduction; pagenum: 238
label: Bibliography; pagenum: 239
label: Index