Article ID: CBB001420500

O degenerado (2010)

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Serpa, Octavio Domont de, Jr. (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 17, suppl. 2
Issue: suppl. 2
Pages: 447-473


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Article in a supplementary issue on the history of psychiatry
Language: Portuguese

The article discusses the theory of degeneration as presented in the works of Benedict-Augustin Morel, situating it within the scientific and cultural context of its day. It underscores the roles played by the notions of heredity and environment in grounding this theory and how it related to the mid-nineteenth century French understanding of psychiatric medicine. It also explores the ramifications of this theory, particularly the works of Valentin Magnan, with the ultimate progressive transition from the notion of degeneration to that of degenerate. Other points of analysis include French psychiatry's concepts of imbalance and constitution and German psychiatry's concept of endogeneity as heirs to degeneration in twentieth-century psychiatry, as well as the Neo-Lamarckian appropriation of this debate in Brazil.

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Authors & Contributors
Loison, Laurent
Burian, Richard M.
Caponi, Sandra
Cartron, Laure
Cottebrune, Anne
Debru, Armelle
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
History of Psychiatry
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom
Wipf & Stock
Concepts
Heredity
Degeneration
Psychiatry
Lamarckism
Mental disorders and diseases
Eugenics
People
Morel, Bénédict Auguste
Magnan, Valentin
André, Christian Carl
Baldwin, James Mark
Beard, George Miller
Butler, Samuel
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
France
Germany
United States
Brazil
Europe
North America
Institutions
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
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