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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness

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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness - El-Hai, Jack
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"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 [examines] the life and work of this complex scientific genius"--Amazon.com.

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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness 2007, Wiley

ISBN-13: 9780470098301

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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness 2005, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780471232926

Hardcover