An Organ of Murder

Language: English

Published by Rutgers University Press, US, 2021

1978813066 / 9781978813069

Series: Book 55 of 65 - Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

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Finalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize 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.

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Title
An Organ of Murder
Author
Courtney E. Thompson
Publisher
Rutgers University Press, US
Publication year
2021
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New
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Paperback
Language
English
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1978813066
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9781978813069
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397 grams
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Book 55 of 65: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

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