The lobotomy letters : the making of American psychosurgery

The lobotomy letters : the making of American psychosurgery /

The Lobotomy Letters gives an account of the widespread acceptance of this controversial procedure. 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...

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Main Author: Raz, Mical
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2013.
Series:Rochester studies in medical history.
Subjects:
Freeman, Walter, > 1895-1972.
Freeman, Walter, > 1895-1972
Psychosurgery > History.
Psychosurgery > United States > History.
Psychology, Pathological > Surgery > United States.
Nervous system > Surgery > United States > History.
Mental illness > Treatment > United States.
Physicians > United States > Biography.
Psychosurgery > United States.
Brain > Surgery.
Frontal lobotomy > History.
Physicians.
Psychosurgery > history
History, 20th Century
Mental Disorders > surgery
Neurosurgery > history
Physicians
physicians.
MEDICAL > Surgery > Neurosurgery.
MEDICAL > History.
Brain > Surgery
Frontal lobotomy
Mental illness > Treatment
Nervous system > Surgery
Psychosurgery
United States
Electronic books.
Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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