Frankenstein and cyborgs: indications of new eugenism through the science

Abstract

This study analyzes the current possibilities of interventions in the body that try enlarge it, turning it better adapted to contemporary conditions. Inspired in Eugenics of the end of the century XIX and beginning of the XX, we intend to look for us elements that help us to think our atmosphere. Through reports collected in newspapers and magazines of great circulation and attentive to the two periods, we identified that new technologies of the body carry permanences of that wel born science: Eugenics. Denominated “new eugenism”, the current body technologies assume own characteristics of our time, as well as keep deep similarities with science called Eugenia. KEY-WORDS: eugenics – science – body’s adaptations