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In this book, Daniel Beer, Lecturer in Modern European History at Royal Holloway, University of London, examines the use of medical and scientific theories of degeneration, particularly that of Bénédict Augustin Morel, by liberal professionals in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and criminology