Lobotomie
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Lobotomy Nation
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Author : Jesper Vaczy Kragh
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-09
Lobotomy Nation written by Jesper Vaczy Kragh and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-09 with History categories.
This book tells the story of one of medicine’s most (in)famous treatments: the neurosurgical operation commonly known as lobotomy. Invented by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz in 1935, lobotomy or psychosurgery became widely used in a number of countries, including Denmark, where the treatment had a major breakthrough. In fact, evidence suggests that more lobotomies were performed in Denmark than any other country. However, the reason behind this unofficial world record has not yet been fully understood. Lobotomy Nation traces the history of psychosurgery and its ties to other psychiatric treatments such as malaria fever therapy, Cardiazol shock and insulin coma therapy, but it also situates lobotomy within a broader context. The book argues that the rise and fall of lobotomy is not just a story about psychiatry, it is also about society, culture and interventions towards vulnerable groups in the 20th century.
The Lobotomist
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Author : Jack El-Hai
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2007-02-09
The Lobotomist written by Jack El-Hai and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-09 with Science categories.
The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Drawing on Freeman’s documents and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look at the life and work of this complex scientific genius. The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Although many patients did not benefit from the thousands of lobotomies Freeman performed, others believed their lobotomies changed them for the better. Drawing on a rich collection of documents Freeman left behind and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look into the life of this complex scientific genius and traces the physician's fascinating life and work.
Lobotomy
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Author : David Shutts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Lobotomy written by David Shutts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Frontal lobotomy categories.
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The Lobotomy Letters
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Author : Mical Raz
language : en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date : 2013
The Lobotomy Letters written by Mical Raz and has been published by University Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The rise and widespread acceptance of psychosurgery constitutes one of the most troubling chapters in the history of modern medicine. By the late 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans had been lobotomized as treatment for a host of psychiatric disorders. Though the procedure would later be decried as devastating and grossly unscientific, many patients, families, and physicians reported veritable improvement from the surgery; some patients were even considered cured. The Lobotomy Letters gives an account of why this controversial procedure was sanctioned by psychiatrists and doctors of modern medicine. Drawing from original correspondence penned by lobotomy patients and their families as well as from the professional papers of lobotomy pioneer and neurologist Walter Freeman, the volume reconstructs how physicians, patients, and their families viewed lobotomy and analyzes the reasons for its overwhelming use. Mical Raz, MD/PhD, is a physician and historian of medicine.
Over De Praefrontale Lobotomie Academisch Proefschrift Etc With Summaries In English French And German
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Author : Henricus WIJSENBEEK
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Over De Praefrontale Lobotomie Academisch Proefschrift Etc With Summaries In English French And German written by Henricus WIJSENBEEK and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with categories.
My Lobotomy
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Author : Howard Dully
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2007-09-04
My Lobotomy written by Howard Dully and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this heartfelt memoir from one of the youngest recipients of the transorbital lobotamy, Howard Dully shares the story of a painfully dysfunctional childhood, a misspent youth, his struggle to claim the life that was taken from him, and his redemption. At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just to prove a point, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric transorbital—or ice pick—lobotomy. Abandoned by his family within a year of the surgery, Howard spent his teen years in mental institutions, his twenties in jail, and his thirties in a bottle. It wasn’t until he was in his forties that Howard began to pull his life together. But even as he began to live the “normal” life he had been denied, Howard struggled with one question: Why? There were only three people who would know the truth: Freeman, the man who performed the procedure; Lou, his cold and demanding stepmother who brought Howard to the doctor’s attention; and his father, Rodney. Of the three, only Rodney, the man who hadn’t intervened on his son’s behalf, was still living. Time was running out. Stable and happy for the first time in decades, Howard began to search for answers. Through his research, Howard met other lobotomy patients and their families, talked with one of Freeman’s sons about his father’s controversial life’s work, and confronted Rodney about his complicity. And, in the archive where the doctor’s files are stored, he finally came face to face with the truth. Revealing what happened to a child no one—not his father, not the medical community, not the state—was willing to protect, My Lobotomy exposes a shameful chapter in the history of the treatment of mental illness. Yet, ultimately, this is a powerful and moving chronicle of the life of one man.
Over De Praeferontale Lobotomie
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Author : Henricus Wysenbeek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Over De Praeferontale Lobotomie written by Henricus Wysenbeek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with categories.
American Lobotomy
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Author : Jenell Johnson
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2014-10-17
American Lobotomy written by Jenell Johnson and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-17 with Medical categories.
American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History takes one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine as its subject. Through a close study of representations of lobotomy in a wide variety of cultural texts, American Lobotomy offers a rhetorical history of the infamous procedure and illustrates its continued effect on American medicine. The development of lobotomy in 1935 was heralded as a "miracle cure" by newspapers and magazines, which hoped openly that the "soul surgery" would empty the nation's perennially blighted asylums. However, the miracle cure soon began to fall from favor with the American public, as the operation became characterized as a barbaric practice with suspiciously authoritarian overtones. Only twenty years after the first operation, lobotomists initially praised for their "therapeutic courage" were condemned for their barbarity, an image that has only soured in subsequent decades. Taking on previously abandoned texts like science fiction, horror film, political polemics, and conspiracy theory, Johnson employs these discarded texts to write a rhetorical history of the operation, showing how lobotomy's entanglement with social and political narratives contributed to a powerful image of the operation that persists to this day. In a provocative challenge to the history of medicine, American Lobotomy argues that lobotomy's rhetorical history is crucial to understanding lobotomy's medical history, offering a case study of how medicine accumulates meaning as it circulates in public culture, and it stands as an argument for the need to understand biomedicine as a culturally situated practice.
The Pest Maiden
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Author : Penelope Scambly Schott
language : en
Publisher: Turning Point
Release Date : 2004
The Pest Maiden written by Penelope Scambly Schott and has been published by Turning Point this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Poetry categories.
Last Resort
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Author : Jack D. Pressman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-08-08
Last Resort written by Jack D. Pressman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-08 with Medical categories.
This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when many Americans were operated on for mental illness.