Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The study of the improvement of human functioning and well-being by improvement of living conditions.
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- noun The study of the effects of place on people.
- noun study of improvement of human
function whenenvironment improves
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- noun the study of methods of improving human well-being and efficient functioning by improving environmental conditions
Etymologies
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Examples
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In order to save the human race from mental illness and other social ills, Dr. Kellogg advocated the use of eugenics and euthenics, and he also advocated the use of a eugenics registry in order to keep the “races pure.”
Crazy Genes Mother Jones RN 2007
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In order to save the human race from mental illness and other social ills, Dr. Kellogg advocated the use of eugenics and euthenics, and he also advocated the use of a eugenics registry in order to keep the “races pure.”
Archive 2007-03-01 Mother Jones RN 2007
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Because of the society is coming more and more modern, the defects of the trade crackers are very extrude: pollute the euthenics, wasteful, and so on.
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[73] The entire field of race betterment and social improvement is divided between _eugenics_, which considers only germinal or heritable changes in the race; and _euthenics_, which deals with improvement in the individual, and in his environment.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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In general, euthenics, when not accompanied by some form of selection
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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A study of these long-lived families from another point of view will reveal that heredity is the primary factor and that good environment, euthenics, is the secondary one.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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But this illustration certainly gives no ground for a belief that euthenics is sufficient to prolong one's life _beyond_ the inherited limit.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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If they had had more euthenics, they should have lived longer.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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In so far, then, as euthenics is actually providing man with more favorable surroundings, -- not with ostensibly more favorable surroundings which, in reality, are unfavorable -- there can be no antagonism between it and eugenics.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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He may fancy that the early death of a parent left the child without sufficient care, and that neglect, poverty, or some other factor of euthenics brought about the child's death.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
qms commented on the word euthenics
There's much that a spa can instill:
Cold showers can stiffen the will;
Applying euthenics
Can calm the splenetics,
While mud baths cure many an ill.
June 23, 2016