His research explores the role of different forms of knowledge in tackling major social and political problems, particularly problems of human improvement. (gse.harvard.edu)
But the purpose of this healing is not human improvement so much as it is the renewed God - experience it makes possible. (religion-online.org)
The professionalization of medical genetics that began around mid-century involved many refinements of the message, but the old goals of human improvement dating back to Francis Galton carry down to present - day efforts such as gene therapy. (hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org)