The term 'eugenics' is defined as attempts to change gene frequencies of human populations to favor socially desired traits, with techniques ranging from forced sterilization and marriage licensing at one extreme to therapeutic abortion and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis at the less coercive end, and including bioethically contentious approaches such as germ-line gene therapy and embryo selection.
January 01, 2018
high
descriptive
Broad definitional description of eugenics and associated techniques.