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The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery (2013)

Raz, Mical (Author)

University of Rochester Press
Publication date: 2013
Language: English

ISBN: 9781580467940

Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xii + 166 pp.; ill.

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Correspondence and corresponding Psychiatry Surgery Patients Discipline formation Lobotomy Physicians; doctors 20th century United States Freeman, Walter

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 how physicians, patients, and their families viewed lobotomy and analyzes the reasons for its overwhelming use.

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