Meanings
- uncountableThe use of genetic manipulation to improve human hereditary qualities.
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Despite the striking similarities between eugenics and neo-eugenics, it is important to mark a primary difference: that eugenics was, in some cases, mobilized as a genocidal movement. Even though neo-eugenics aims to eradicate specific bodies—just as eugenic sought—neo-eugenics does not subscribe to the minimum requirements of genocide as outlined by Esposito (2008, p. 137):[…]
2021, David-Jack Fletcher, Age as Disease: Anti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 64
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