euthenics
\ yoo-THEN-iks \, noun;
1.a science concerned with bettering the condition of human beings through the improvement of their environment.
Quotes:
Yet Burroughs is unwilling, politically, to play the dread game of eugenics or euthenics , outside his private fantasy, which, since his intelligence is aware of the circularity of its Utopian reasoning, invariably turns sardonic.
-- Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), edited by A. O. Scott, "Burroughs's Naked Lunch ," A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays , 2002
By the early 1890s, Swallow began to explore larger issues of the urban environment, such as air and water contamination, and home environment concerns as part of a more integrative science she called euthenics , defined as the “science of controllable environment."
-- Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring , 2005
Origin:
Euthenics entered English in the early 1900s from the Greek word euthēn(eîn) meaning "to be well off, prosper."
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