Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness, and family secrets

Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness, and family secrets /

"In the late 1930s, in asylums and hospitals across America, a group of renowned neurosurgeons worked to develop and refine a new class of brain operation--the lobotomy--that they hoped would eradicate everything from schizophrenia to homosexuality ... The most important test subject to emerge...

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Main Author: Dittrich, Luke (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
H. M., > 1926-2008.
Scoville, William Beecher, > 1906-1984.
Amnesiacs > Biography.
Epilepsy > Surgery > United States > History.
Memory disorders > Patients.
Frontal lobotomy > History.
Brain > Surgery > United States > History.
Amnesia, Anterograde.
Epilepsy > surgery.
Memory Disorders.
Memory, Long-Term.
Amnesiacs.
Epilepsy > Surgery.
Epilepsy.
Memory disorders.
Frontal lobotomy.
Brain > Surgery.
Brain.
United States.
Biography.
Biographies.
History.

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