The study and cultivation of conditions that may improve the human race, in particular the detection and elimination of genetic disease.
n. the alleged ‘science’ concerned with the improvement of the human race by means of the principles of genetics, strongly associated with ideas of selective breeding, discrimination, and immoral regimes, such as the Nazis in 20th-century Germany. Interventions used in reproductive medicine, such as *preimplantation genetic diagnosis, antenatal screening, diagnostic testing, and abortion, are regarded by some as potentially eugenic. —eugenic adj.
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