An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America by Courtney E. Thompson

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

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

Courtney E. Thompson

278 pages paperback 2021

4 editions

nonfiction crime health history
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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 med...

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