The contentious science of phrenology once promised insight into character and intellect through external 'reading' of the head. In the transforming settler-col

Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remain

Repatriation, Science, and Identity explores the entanglement of race, history, identity and ethics inherent in the application of scientific techniques to dete

"A compelling history of how popular phrenology featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the settler-colonial world of nineteenth-century

Examines the extensive use of animal commodities in Victorian Britain and the humanitarian and ecological issues raised by their consumption.