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Episode 175: Head Case (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2021-07-19 07:01:00 +0000 UTCIn our never-ending journey to discover what makes us tick, people have come up with some pretty surprising ideas. And in the process, they’ve given themselves permission to do some utterly terrifying things.
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Further Reading
- “CT Scan Reveals Mummified Monk Inside Ancient Buddha Statue,” History.com, August 2018, https://www.history.com/news/ct-scan-reveals-mummified-monk-inside-ancient-buddha-statue
- Adan, Mamerto. “How Diogo Alves’ Head Ended up in a Jar.” Owlcation. 11/18/19. https://owlcation.com/humanities/How-Diogo-Alves-Head-Ended-Up-in-a-Jar.
- Bradley, James. “Natural Born Killers: Brain Shape, Behaviour and the History of Phrenology.” The Conversation. 6/12/14. https://theconversation.com/natural-born-killers-brain-shape-behaviour-and-the-history-of-phrenology-27518.
- Cobb, Matthew. The Idea of the Brain: A History. London: Profile Books, 2020.
- Cobb, Matthew. “Phrenology: From Bumps on the Head to the Birth of Neuroscience.” Science Focus. 5/12/2020. https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/phrenology-from-bumps-on-the-head-to-the-birth-of-neuroscience.
- “Colonial News.” The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser. 10/29/1853. P. 2. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/101734163?searchTerm=Henry%20bradley.
- “Conviction of the Pirate Bushrangers.” Bell’s LIfe in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer. 10/29/1853. P. 1. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59757844?searchTerm=Henry%20bradley.
- Davies, Owen, and Francesca Matteoni. Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- Dickey, Colin. Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius. Unbridled Books, 2009).
- DiCristina, Bruce. “Criminology in 19th-Century France: Mainstays of the French ‘Environmental’ Tradition.” In The Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Criminology. Edited by Ruth Ann Triplett. 67-83. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2018.
- “Diogo Alves--The Killer Whose Head is Still in the Jar”. Planet Today. 9/9/2020. https://www.planet-today.com/2020/09/diogo-alves-killer-whose-head-is-still.html#gsc.tab=0.
- “Domestic Intelligence.” The Argus. 10/3/1853. P. 5. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4797663?searchTerm=Henry%20bradley.
- “Extraordinary Case of Cruelty.” United States Gazette. 11/19/1834. Pg. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/image/605045345/?terms=major%2Bmitchell.
- Ferraz, Rafaela. “See an Alarmingly Well-Preserved Human Head in a Jar at this Portuguese University. Atlas Obscura. 5/18/17. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/diogo-alves-head-lisbon.
- Fitchett, Adam. “The History of Brain Implants: From Remote Control Bulls to Bionic Eyes.” Medium. 7/30/18. https://medium.com/cybertrop-h-ic/the-history-of-brain-implants-dd492eb48b04.
- Forster, Thomas. Sketch of the New Anatomy of Physiology of the Brain and Nervous System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim, Considered as Comprehending a Complete System of Zoonomy, with Observations on its Tendency to the Improvement of Education, of Punishment, and of the Treatment of Insanity. Reprinted from the Pamphleteer, with Additions by Thomas Forester, F.L.S. London: Messrs. Law and Whittaker; 1815.
- Gall, Franz Joseph. On the Origin of the Moral Qualities and Intellectual Faculties of Man, and the Conditions of their Manifestation. Translated by Winslow Lewis. Volume 1. Boston: March, Capen & Lyson, 1835.
- “The Gallows.” The Argus. 10/26/1853, p 4. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4798640?browse=ndp%3Abrowse%2Ftitle%2FA%2Ftitle%2F13%2F1853%2F10%2F26%2Fpage%2F510527%2Farticle%2F4798640.
- Geiringer, Karl, and Irenen Geiringer. Hayden: A Creative Life in Music. 3rd. Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
- “The History of Phrenology”. Phrenology. 5/1/1998. https://phrenology.org/intro.html.
- Holtzman, Geoffrey. “When Phrenology was Used in Court”. Slate. 12/16/15. https://slate.com/technology/2015/12/how-phrenology-was-used-in-the-1834-trial-of-9-year-old-major-mitchell.html.
- “Horrible Murder at Circular Head.” Hobarton Gaurdian. 10/1/1853. P. 3. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/172860444?searchTerm=Henry%20bradley.
- Kruse, Colton. “How did Portugal’s First Serial Killer’s Head End up in a Jar?”. Ripley’s. 9/6/18. https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/diogo-alves.
- Larson, Frances. Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Head Found. New York: Liveright, 2014.
- “Melbourne.” The Sydney Morning Herald. 10/26/1853. P. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/image/122502996/?terms=phrenology.
- “Melbourne Supreme Court: Conviction of the Pirate Bushrangers.” Colonial Times. 11/27/1853. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8774742?searchTerm=Henry%20bradley.
- Morin, Robert. “Phrenology and Crime.” In The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology. Volume 2: L-Z. 612-16. Edited by J. Mitchel Miller. Malden: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2014.
- “The Physiology of Crime.” The Argus. 10/27/1853. P. 4. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4798685?browse=ndp%3Abrowse%2Ftitle%2FA%2Ftitle%2F13%2F1853%2F10%2F27%2Fpage%2F510544%2Farticle%2F4798685.
- Ticknor, Bobbie. “Phrenology.” In The Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory. Edited by Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox. 709-11. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2010.
- “Trial of the Circular Head Murderers.” The Courier. 10/26/2020. P. 2. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2238843?searchTerm=Henry%20bradley.
- “Victoria.” The Sydney Morning Herald. 10/26/1853. Pp. 4-5. https://www.newspapers.com/image/122502996/?terms=phrenology.
- Walsh, Anthony A. “Phrenology and the Boston Medical Community in the 1830s.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 50, n. 2 (Summer 1976): 261-73.
- Webster, James, and Georg Feder. The New Grove Haydn. London: MacMillan, 2002.
- Weiss, Kenneth J. “Isaac Ray at 200: Phrenology and Expert Testimony.” The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 35, n. 3 (2007): 339-345.
Comments
Peder A. P. Dukefos
Retrophrenology: It works like this. Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone's character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore - according to the kind of logical thinking that characterizes the Ankh-Morpork mind - it should be possible to mould someone's character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets, but it creates employment and keeps the money in circulation, and that's the main thing. Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
