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

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

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Courtney E. Thompson

278 pages first pub 2021 (view editions)

nonfiction crime health history
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...