Eugenocide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Eugenocide is a noun meaning The elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.
Meaning
The elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.
Example Sentences
Wolfensberger (1981) refers to the particular effort to eliminate people with disabilities as eugenocide.
It was the "first of the modest schemes for the ecological conservation and harvesting of newborns, which we have come to know as the science of eugenocide."
Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations.
Word Forms
- eugenicide
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include eugenicide, eugenics, neo-eugenics, eugenesis, techno-eugenics, genocidism.
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