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)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine
Subjects:
1800-1899
Criminal anthropology > History > 19th century
Criminal psychology > United States > History > 19th century
Criminology > United States > History > 19th century
Phrenology > United States > History > 19th century
Anthropologie criminelle > Histoire > 19e siècle
Criminologie > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle
Phrénologie > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle
Criminal anthropology
Criminal psychology
Criminology
MEDICAL / General
Phrenology
United States
History

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