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eugenics
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eu·gen·ics (y-jnks)
n.
The study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding.
Eugenics
A social movement in which the population of a society, country, or the world is to be improved by controlling the passing on of hereditary information through mating.
Mentioned in: Gene Therapy
eugenics
[yo̅o̅jen′iks]
Etymology: Gk, eu + genein, to produce
the study of methods for controlling the characteristics of populations through selective breeding.


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As she explains, "streamline designers approached products the same way that eugenicists approached bodies" (4).
Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s by Kline, Wendy / Journal of Social History
What I initially thought was a potential means by which government agencies and eugenicists could harvest and misuse people's genetic code, I eventually saw as a powerful tool to delve deeper into the cultural diversity of my African ancestry.
Written in the blood: my genealogical quest to untangle ancestry and ... by Rabb, Chris / Colorlines Magazine
As they thought of ways to accomplish the "weeding and seeding" of human genes, German eugenicists were first assisted, then taken over, by a political movement, a government, and a leader all driven by the crudest and most naive notions of national and racial purity.
The price of science without moral constraints: German and American ... by Pollack, Robert E. / Cross Currents
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