| 单词 | negative eugenics |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnegative eugenics negative eugenics n. now historical the practice of trying to prevent the birth of children to persons considered defective or in some way unfit to be parents. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > genetics > branches of eugenics1883 thremmatology1888 negative eugenics1908 phenogenetics1928 cytogenetics1930 genetic engineering1934 radiogenetics1934 population biology1935 population genetics1938 immunogenetics1947 gengineering1985 archaeogenetics1999 1908 F. Galton in Nature 22 Oct. 645/2 Little or nothing will be said relating to what has been well termed by Dr. Saleeby ‘negative’ eugenics, namely,..hindering the marriages and the production of offspring by the exceptionally unfit. 1931 J. S. Huxley What dare I Think? iii. 93 Negative eugenics is concerned with preventing degeneration. 1974 J. R. Baker Race iv. 57 He [sc. Madison Grant] was harsh in his schemes for negative eugenics... He favoured the forcible sterilization of criminals, diseased and insane persons, and ‘worthless race-types’, and the enactment of laws against race-mixture. < as lemmas |
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