Meaning of eugenocide | Babel Free

Definitions

The elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.

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Examples

“Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations.”

“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."”

“Wolfensberger (1981) refers to the particular effort to eliminate people with disabilities as eugenocide.”

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