title: [Degenerate Children: mental medicine and "regenerationism" in Spain at the end of the 19th century].
abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse some aspects of the psychiatric and medical-social discourse on the relationship between childhood and insanity in Spain at the end of nineteenth century and during the first third of the twentieth century. We study the principal theories about degenerate children (delinquent childhood and anormal childhood) based on two of the most paradigmatic works of the Spanish medical literature: Estudio medico-social del nino golfo by Jose Sanchis Banus and Los ninos mentalmente anormales by Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia, Centro de Estudios Historicos del CSIC, Madrid.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Huertas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000266:history*; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000266:history*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003415:Crime / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000266:history*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D013030:Spain
vernacular_title: Niõs degenerados. Medicina mental y regeneracionismo en la España del cambio de siglo.