Elf Sternberg

While they're at it, let's hope they also find the biochemical basis for human tendencies to religiosity, bigotry, and bias, so we can go about 'curing' those too. They're a lot more dangerous than mere homosexuality.

On a calmer note, it's worth looking at the efforts of two groups to maintain their identities in the face of medicine: dwarfs or little people, and the congenitally deaf. Both see the advent of new prenatal tests, and sometimes treatments, as threatening the future of their communities.


http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/bigenough/special_normal.html

http://www.deaftoday.com/news/archives/005454.html