Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, C.1848-1918  

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"In Degeneration, Nordau argued that madness, suicide, crime and pathological literature symptomatised modern times - "We stand now in the midst of a severe mental epidemic; of a sort of black death of degeneration and hysteria". Having borrowed various contemporary terms and ideas from the works of Morel, Lombroso, Maudsley, Taine, Charcot and others, Nordau argued that modern society was witnessing a terrible crisis." --Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, C.1848-1918, page 24, Daniel Pick, 1993

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Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, C.1848-1918 (1993) is a book by Daniel Pick.



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