`On the Question of Degeneration' by Emil Kraepelin (1908)1

@article{Engstrom2007OnTQ,
  title={`On the Question of Degeneration' by Emil Kraepelin (1908)1},
  author={Eric J. Engstrom},
  journal={History of Psychiatry},
  year={2007},
  volume={18},
  pages={389 - 398}
}
  • E. Engstrom
  • Published 1 September 2007
  • Sociology, Medicine
  • History of Psychiatry
The introduction to this Classic Text draws on a new consensus among researchers in the history of eugenics to assess how Kraepelin articulated his eugenic ideas and put them into practice. It analyses his article `On the Question of Degeneration' and finds him not just giving voice to his deep concern for the German Volk, but also espousing neo-Lamarckian views and building a large-scale, clinically oriented, epidemiological research programme. The introduction situates this research programme… 
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