| 单词 | positive eugenics |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspositive eugenics positive eugenics n. the practice of encouraging the birth of children to parents having qualities considered desirable to the community. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > ethnoscience > [noun] > eugenics or cacogenics stirpiculture1870 positive eugenics1909 cacogenics1920 dysgenic1920 1907 C. W. Saleeby in Sociol. Papers III. 31 We must..preserve the two-fold aspect of eugenics, the one positive—the encouragement of the better; the other negative—the discouragement of the worse.] 1909 C. W. Saleeby Parenthood & Race Culture xi. 172 In regard to positive eugenics I..cannot believe in the propriety of attempting to bribe into parenthood people who have no love of children. 1970 Sci. Amer. Mar. 107 Conceivably a changed social climate and increased knowledge will make it possible for positive eugenics to be practiced on man. 1983 E. C. Minkoff Evolutionary Biol. xxviii. 564/1 Positive eugenics, in any case, depends upon our determination of desirable genotypes. < as lemmas |
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