The Dark Story of Phrenology

Phrenology was a pseudoscience that spanned from the late 1700s to the early 1900s. While it's remembered more as a cultural phenomenon like astrology or horoscopes, it was used to justify terrible events in world history, like the Trail of Tears in the US. In this video, Patrick Kelly will walk you through the rise and fall of phrenology.

☠️NONE OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS VIDEO SHOULD BE USED AS MEDICAL ADVICE OR OPINION. IT IS FOR GENERAL EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT☠️

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Gall and the Phrenological Movement (1947)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4444...

Gall on the Cerebellum
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Phrenology by Courtney E Thompson
https://lps.library.cmu.edu/ETHOS/art...

The Dutch Fiddler: Phrenology and Criminology (2004)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...

Crania Americana (1839) by Samuel Morton
https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/bookv...

Design Boom phrenology compilation
https://www.designboom.com/art/phreno...

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0:00 Introduction
0:39 Phrenology Becomes a Thing
6:06 Phrenology Spreads
10:18 Phrenology in the US
13:02 The Dark Side of Phrenology
17:48 The End of Phrenology