An organ of murder : crime, violence, and phrenology in nineteenth-century America /
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 th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
