El esqueleto de la viuda Houet: Frenología y medicina legal en Francia durante la década de 1830
This paper deals with the judicial identification of corpses in nineteenth-century France. The case of the widow Houet (1833) is particularly interesting for this purpose because two contrasting techniques of identification were employed: forensic medicine and phrenology. Mateu Orfila, dean of the P...
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| Main Author: | José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Criminocorpus
2015-02-01
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| Series: | Criminocorpus |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/2927 |
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