Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results
Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results is a work by Eugene S. Talbot, a Chicago dentist and physician, published in the Contemporary Science Series edited by Havelock Ellis. Talbot surveys the theory of degeneration that dominated much medical and social thought at the end of the nineteenth century, the idea that heredity, disease, alcohol, poor nutrition and environment could produce a progressive decline in body and mind marked by physical signs, especially of the jaws, teeth and skull. He traces the concept from folklore and Shakespeare to modern medicine. Its methods and conclusions are now discredited, but the book is a revealing document of the scientific assumptions behind eugenics. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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