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

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
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505 0 |a Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Through a Mirror, Darkly -- Chapter 1. Origins and Organs -- Chapter 2. Transatlantic Societies and Skulls -- Chapter 3. Phrenology on Trial -- Chapter 4. The Prison as Laboratory -- Chapter 5. Policing the Self and the Stranger -- Chapter 6. A Victory for Phrenology? -- Epilogue: Phrenological Futures -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Series List 
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