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

Eric J. Engstrom

Humboldt University, Berlin, eric.engstrom{at}charite.de

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 in the context of Kraepelin's work in Munich before World War I.

Key Words: degeneration • Emil Kraepelin • eugenics • neo-Lamarckism • psychiatric epidemiology • racial hygiene

History of Psychiatry, Vol. 18, No. 3, 389-398 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X07079689
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