"It has become the fashion to regard any symptom which is not obviously due to trauma or infection as a sign of degeneracy....this being so, it may well be asked whether an attribution of "degeneracy" is of any value, or adds anything to our knowledge"
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Sigmund Freud (1905) Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.
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Degeneration
was a widely influential concept at the interface of the social and biological sciences in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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