eugenicist

American  

[yoo-jen-uh-sist] / yuˈdʒɛn ə sɪst /

Also eugenist

noun

1. a specialist in measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.

2. an advocate of measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.

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Etymology

Origin of eugenicist

First recorded in 1905–10; eugenic + -ist

Example Sentences

I’ve asked the White House and Department of Health and Human Services for comment on the echoes of eugenicist thinking in contemporary government policies but haven’t received replies.

From Los Angeles Times

They also brag about how much money they put into genetic testing and IVF treatments to get the "best" babies, which is not only overtly eugenicist but cuts against their claim that they want everyone to have more babies.

From Salon

She also stripped the name of eugenicist Rufus von KleinSmid from a prominent building and renamed it after Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, a Native American leader; and honored survivors of the Holocaust with a University Medallion.

From Los Angeles Times

The eugenicist impulse has always rejected science, even as it pretends to be "scientific."

From Salon

Folt also cited “of special significance” her efforts to rectify the university’s checkered past on racial justice — offering honorary degrees to 33 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II who were denied the chance to continue their USC studies, stripping the name of eugenicist Rufus von KleinSmid from a prominent building and renaming it after Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, a Native American leader, and honoring survivors of the Holocaust with a University Medallion.

From Los Angeles Times