Article ID: CBB245907388

The introduction of leucotomy in Germany: National Socialism, émigrés, a divided Germany and the development of neurosurgery (2019)

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Thinking about the chronology of the introduction of leucotomy in Germany sheds new light on the hypothesis of a special ‘radical’ approach of German psychiatry to the treatment of the mentally ill during the period of National Socialism. Moreover, it offers new insights into the transnational and interdisciplinary conditions of the introduction of leucotomy in early divided post-war Germany.

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Authors & Contributors
Raz, Mical
Stahnisch, Frank W.
Montgomery, Sarah Fawn
Jęczmińska, Kinga
Thabane, Motlatsi
Gnoth, Mareike
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Social History of Medicine
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Publishers
Mad Creek Books
University of Rochester Press
McGill-Queen's University Press
Concepts
Psychiatry
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Mental disorders and diseases
Neurosurgery; psychosurgery
Lobotomy
Psychiatric hospitals
People
Freeman, Walter
Mathewson, Thomas Henry Reeve
Ewald, Gottfried
Cameron, Donald Ewen
Schneider, Carl
Penfield, Wilder Graves
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Germany
United States
Australia
Strasbourg (France)
Lesotho
Switzerland
Institutions
Reichsuniversität Strassburg
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