Social & Preventive Medicine “Eugenics” is: A The study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding B The 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 anesthesia produced by an agent that causes painless loss of consciousness and subsequent death C A feeling of well-being or elation, may be drug related D A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion 💡 Explanation "Eugenics" is: ✓ Correct Answer: A. The study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding