Dictionary of Environmental Health
The study and application of techniques intended to manage and control the development of populations in a predetermined direction. Originally the concept was seen as a way of improving the human race through such advances as the elimination of genetic disease.
The concept proved to have a darker side when pursuit of supposed racial purity in Germany during the Second World War resulted in the genocide of the Jewish population during the Holocaust. Subsequently genetic or human experimentation has been seen potentially as having similar dimensions (albeit lesser in scale) and there is much debate about the ethics of pursuing such courses.
See also: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UTOPIA; ZERO POPULATION GROWTH
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