Concept information
Preferred term
Eugenics
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Eugenics, Negative
- Eugenics, Positive
- Negative Eugenics
- Positive Eugenics
Scope note
- The attempt to improve the PHENOTYPES of future generations of the human population by fostering the reproduction of those with favorable phenotypes and GENOTYPES and hampering or preventing BREEDING by those with "undesirable" phenotypes and genotypes. The concept is largely discredited. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)
In other languages
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Finnish
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rodunjalostusoppi
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rotuhygienia
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Swedish
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Eugenik
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Negativ eugenik
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Positiv eugenik
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005053
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