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In this episode of the Radiolab podcast, scientists and researchers discuss the history and current practices of developing human embryos in a lab. Like the Hatchery in Brave New World, the scientists have control over creating human beings. The scientists discuss the ethical questions and ramifications of their work.
This timeline provides an overview of Charles Darwin's life, research, and writing. His ideas about human evolution and natural selection had an enormous influence on Aldous Huxley's writing of Brave New World.
A detailed synopsis of Sigmund Freud's best-known work, this site provides backgrounds on ideas about psychoanalysis, conditioning, individuality, and conformity that Huxley wrestles with in Brave New World.
This link provides the full text of an essay Aldous Huxley wrote almost thirty years after Brave New World was published. In it, he considers to what extent his predictions about the future have come true.
"Dystopian dreams: how feminist science fiction predicted the future"
In this article from The Guardian, Naomi Alderman connects science fiction that deals with gender roles and reproductive rights, of which Brave New World is an early example, with policy debates and developments surrounding these issues in the contemporary world.
This episode of PBS Frontline considers the ethics of current developments in genetic technology for those who cannot have children on their own.
