Lobotomy Nation: The History of Psychosurgery and Psychiatry in Denmark, Kragh Jesper Vaczy

Автор: Jenell Johnson
Название: American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
ISBN: 0472036653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472036653
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: American Lobotomy studies a wide variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine. The development of lobotomy in 1935 was heralded as a “miracle cure” that would empty the nation’s perennially blighted asylums. However, only twenty years later, lobotomists initially praised for their “therapeutic courage” were condemned for their barbarity, an image that has only soured in subsequent decades. Johnson employs previously abandoned texts like science fiction, horror film, political polemics, and conspiracy theory to show how lobotomy’s entanglement with social and political narratives contributed to a powerful image of the operation that persists to this day. The book provocatively challenges the history of medicine, arguing that rhetorical history is crucial to understanding medical history. It offers a case study of how medicine accumulates meaning as it circulates in public culture and argues for the need to understand biomedicine as a culturally situated practice.

Автор: Mical Raz
Название: The Lobotomy Letters – The Making of American Psychosurgery
ISBN: 1580465242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580465243
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: 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 Lobotomy Letters gives an account of the widespread acceptance of this controversial procedure.