Lass, Leon R. (2000). Aldous Huxley Brave New World. First Thing: A monthly Journal of Religion and Public life. 101:51-52.
Journal focuses on the fear of contemporary societies now that in vitro and a number of other non-natural fertilization techniques are becoming popular. Asks the question...has science crossed the line ?
Libman, L., and Williams, L. (1998). Brave New World. [Motion Pictures].
1998 movie adaptation of Huxley's novel.
Wikipedia. (2015, Feb 15). Brave New World. Retrieved from Wikipedia website: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World.
Wikipedia talks about the plot, characters of the book. Also mentions the adaptations that were done, which includes movies and radio stories. One of the main topics of this book is the question of unnatural reproduction, he doesn't use genetic engineering/modification in his book because the structure of DNA had not been discovered yet.
2. Social History
Wikipedia. (2015, Feb 15). 1930s. Retrieved from Wikipedia website: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930s#Major_political_changes
Focus on the political changes. There was several dictatorships that started during these years and government cruelty against their own people.
Frankel, M. S. (2003). Inheritable genetic modification and a brave new world: did Huxley have it wrong? Hastings center report. 33(2): 31-36.
This article focuses on the ethics of genetic modification.
Forsythe, C. (2014). Medical assumptions at foundation of Roe v. Wade and its implications for women's health. Issue in law and medicine. 29(2):183-230.
Allows us to pinpoint our current stance on the subject of fertility and birth, and perhaps compare it to the view from the 1930s.
More stuff needed on genres of science fiction at the two times.
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