An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America

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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 Vic...

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Main Author: Thompson, Courtney E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
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Keywords:
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
MEDICAL / General
Health, Medicine, Medical Studies, Health Studies, Crime, Violence, Phrenology, 19th Century, United States, Courts, Life, Culture, Law, Prisons, Trial, Research, Criminality
USA > Kraniologie > Kriminalität > Geschichte
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