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, NJ
PB Rutgers University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1769565280
AB Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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
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
OP 248
CN HV6059
SN 978-1-9788-1310-6
K1 Criminal anthropology : United States : History : 19th century
K1 Criminal Psychology : United States : History : 19th century
K1 Criminology : United States : History : 19th century
K1 Phrenology : United States : History : 19th century
K1 Social Science / Criminology
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
K1 Violence
K1 19th Century
K1 United States
K1 Courts
K1 Life
K1 Culture
K1 Law
K1 Prisons
K1 Trial
K1 Research
K1 Criminality
K1 Criminology
K1 Criminal Justice
K1 us history
K1 u.s. history
K1 united states history
K1 medicine and nursing
K1 History of Medicine
K1 nursing of history
K1 critical issues
K1 critical issues in health and medicine
K1 Social Science
K1 Discrimination
K1 Race relations
K1 MEDICAL / General
K1 MEDICAL / History
K1 Health
K1 Medicine
K1 Medical Studies
K1 Health Studies
K1 Crime
K1 Phrenology
K1 history of criminological thought
K1 crime and medicine
K1 prison as research space
K1 Expert Testimony
K1 history of punishment
K1 cultural history of crime
K1 pseudoscience and justice
K1 American forensic science
K1 skull measurement
K1 criminal profiling origins
K1 scientific racism
K1 visual culture and crime
K1 phrenological theory
K1 history of American law
K1 prison reform history
K1 courtroom science
K1 science and crime
K1 medico-legal theory
K1 criminal justice history
K1 19th-century criminology
K1 American penal system
K1 LAW / General
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
K1 historical criminal anthropology
K1 science in the courtroom
K1 bodily evidence
K1 Health, Medicine, Medical Studies, Health Studies, Crime, Violence, Phrenology, 19th Century, United States, Courts, Life, Culture, Law, Prisons, Trial, Research, Criminality
K1 USA : Kraniologie : Kriminalität : Geschichte
K1 eBook-DeGruyter-EBS-2021-2022
DO 10.36019/9781978813106