An organ of murder : crime, violence, and phrenology in nineteenth-century America /

An organ of murder : crime, violence, and phrenology in nineteenth-century America /

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An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology. In the United States, phrenology shaped the production of medico-legal knowledge around crime, the treatment of th...

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Main Author: Thompson, Courtney E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
New Brunswick, NJ : [2021]
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine
Subjects:
19th century
Criminal anthropology > History > 19th century
Criminal anthropology > United States > History > 19th century
Criminal psychology > United States > History > 19th century
Criminology > United States > History > 19th century
Phrenology > United States > History > 19th century
Criminal anthropology
Criminal psychology
Criminology
History
Phrenology
United States
Health, Medicine, Medical Studies, Health Studies, Crime, Violence, Phrenology, 19th Century, United States, Courts, Life, Culture, Law, Prisons, Trial, Research, Criminality
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