The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness Paperback - 2007
by Jack El-Hai
Walter J. Freeman ranks as one of the most scorned physicians of the 20th century. Many people still believe a number of myths about his lobotomies. Yet, many important medical figures during Freeman's time lent their support to his work. This intriguing biography offers a profound look into the life of a complex scientific genius.
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Praise for The Lobotomist
"Written with such clarity and engaging detail that a reader has difficulty in putting it down."
--The New York Review of Books
"One of the many virtues of El-Hai's text is the rich detail he provides about Freeman's life and ideas."
--Los Angeles Times
"Fascinating . . . an important and disturbing contribution to the history of psychiatry."
--New Statesman
"Captivating. . . . No history of modern psychiatry is complete without this story."
--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
The Lobotomist 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. Although many patients did not benefit from the thousands of lobotomies Freeman performed, others believed their lobotomies changed them for the better.
Drawing on a rich collection of documents Freeman left behind and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look into the life of this complex scientific genius and traces the physician's fascinating life and work.
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- Title The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
- Author Jack El-Hai
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New Ed
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley
- Date 2007-02-09
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780470098301 / 0470098309
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.56 x 1.01 in (21.59 x 14.12 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Neurosurgeons - United States, Freeman, Walter
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004014946
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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