Faces of Degeneration: A European Discorder, c.1848-c.1918

Pick, Daniel
Publication Date 1996
ISBN 052145753X
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Binding Paperback
Condition Good+, sound copy
SKU 20472
Notes Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound.

Description

Paperback. 275pp. With particular reference to France, Italy and England, and drawing on medico-psychiatry, criminal anthropology, social criticism, and the novel, Daniel Pick shows how in the refraction and wake of evolution and naturalism, new images and theories of atavism, 'degenerescence' and socio-biological decline emerged in European culture and politics.
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