Unfinished Man: A Scientific Analysis of the Psychopath or Human Degenerate
by Wilson, Albert M.D.; White, Arnold [Preface]
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Greening & Co., Ltd.. Good. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by author to his daughter Alice, signed "from her father, Xmas 1910" upon front free endpaper. [Documentation supporting this provenance will be provided.] xiii, [1], 375 pages. Index of Subjects. List of Authorities. Complete with 82 black and white plates, several of which fold out. Gilt lettering and decoration upon olive cloth. Top edge gilt. "Explains where we fall short, and suggests how the true remedies for individual, anti-social and collective misconduct or communal misunderstandings may be best applied". - Introductory Preface. Chapters include: Humanity, Normal and Abnormal; The Degenerate; The Criminal; How Criminals are Made; Responsibility; Sin and Crime; British Methods and Results; The Relations of Physiology to Justice; Development and Its Dangers; The Physiology of the Brain; Where is Mind?; The Physical Basis of Mind and Personality; Social Hygiene in Holland; The Treatment of Vagabonds and Crime in Belgium; Treatment; The Way Out - General William Booth of the Salvation Army offers a message for England. Wilson was "A genius before his time. The blatant truths of his observations are staggering. Political correctness was in the long distant future so he told it like it was. Open this book at random and you will find yourself drawn into the narrative, without fail." - online review. Light foxing. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A special copy of this landmark study.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Abnormal Psychology, Psychopathology, Human Behaviour, Human Behavior, Criminal Behaviour, Criminology, Heredity, General Booth, Salvation Army, Tramps; Signed by Author(s) .
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- Title
- Unfinished Man: A Scientific Analysis of the Psychopath or Human Degenerate
- Author
- Wilson, Albert M.D.; White, Arnold [Preface]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Greening & Co., Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- Abnormal Psychology, Psychopathology, Human Behaviour, Human Behavior, Criminal Behaviour, Criminology, Heredity, General Booth, Salvation Army
- Bookseller catalogs
- Psychology; Signed;
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