A Propensity to Murder: Phrenology in Antebellum Medico-Legal Theory and Practice.

This article concludes with an exploration of explicit and implicit uses of phrenology, focusing on court cases featuring phrenological expertise or language. The article thus suggests both the uses of phrenology for the building of medico-legal expertise and the extent to which phrenological language around the propensities inflected lay and medico-legal discourse around criminal responsibility and insanity. PMID: 31553441 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Medical History - Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tags: J Hist Med Allied Sci Source Type: research