2007/09/01 by Eric J. Engstrom · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Medical History and Research #Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes #French Historical and Cultural Studies
paper · doi:10.1177/0957154x07079689
openalex publication_date 2007/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
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.