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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
The Lobotomist A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
Author: Jack El-Hai
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 t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780470098301
ISBN-10: 0470098309
Publication Date: 2/9/2007
Pages: 368
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: Wiley
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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