Measurements and statistics in Cesare Lombroso’s archives

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31 août 2022

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By Marina Laura Sardi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata In order to decipher whether the criminal differed from the sane or the alienated man, Cesare Lombroso compared bodies, faces and skulls. This was possible, in part, because between 1864 and 1876, when he taught the clinic of mental illness at the Pavia hospital, Italy, he organized a collection of skulls, brains and facial masks of deceased persons. This collection included few criminals and, instead, a larger number of mentally ill pe...

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