RT Book
T1 An organ of murder: crime, violence, and phrenology in nineteenth-century America
T2 Critical issues in health and medicine
A1 Thompson, Courtney E.
LA English
PP New Brunswick Camden Newark, New Jersey London
PB Rutgers University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1700700995
AB "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 the criminal within prisons and in public discourse, and sociocultural expectations about the causes of crime. The criminal was phrenology's ideal research and demonstration subject, and the courtroom and the prison were essential spaces for the staging of scientific expertise. In particular, phrenology constructed ways of looking as well as a language for identifying, understanding, and analyzing criminals and their actions. This work traces the long-lasting influence of phrenological visual culture and language in American culture, law, and medicine, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6059
SN 9781978813069
SN 9781978813076
K1 Phrenology : United States : History : 19th century
K1 Criminal anthropology : United States : History : 19th century
K1 Criminal Psychology : United States : History : 19th century
K1 Criminology : United States : History : 19th century
K1 USA : Kraniologie : Kriminalität : Geschichte