Hormones, glandes et criminalité: »l'unité somato‐psychique« du délinquant dans la Grande Roumanie
Hormones, Glands and Crime: »the Psychosomatic Unity« of the Delinquent in the Greater Romania

Summary/Abstract: My research deals with the possibilities of interpretation of the criminal behavior opened up by the constitutional medicine and endocrinology during the interwar era. Starting from two criminological studies of constitutional orientation issued in interwar Romania, I explore the semantic operations involved by the construction of the individual as a ‘psychosomatic unity’, as well as the larger social and political consequences of this process.

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