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2722 Social & Preventive Medicine

“Eugenics” is

AA feeling of well-being or elation, may be drug related
Bthe humane destruction of an animal accomplished by a method that produces rapid unconsciousness and subsequent death without evidence of pain or distress, or a method that utilizes anaesthesia produced by an agent that causes painless loss of consciousness and subsequent death
Cthe study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding (Correct Answer)
DA state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
2723 Social & Preventive Medicine

In a case-control study of a suspected association between breast cancer and the contraceptive pill, all of the following are true statements except?

AThe control should come from a population that has the same potential for breast cancer as the cases
BThe control should exclude women known to be taking the pill at the time of the survery
CAll the controls need to be healthy
DThe attributable risk of breast cancer resulting from the pill may be directly measured (Correct Answer)