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The Lobotomist - A Maverick Medical Genius And His Tragic Quest To Rid The World Of Mental Illness (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R522
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The Lobotomist - A Maverick Medical Genius And His Tragic Quest To Rid The World Of Mental Illness (Paperback, New Ed)

J El-Hai

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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.

General

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2007
First published: February 2007
Authors: J El-Hai
Dimensions: 214 x 139 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 362
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-09830-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering
Books > Medicine > Surgery > Neurosurgery
Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering
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LSN: 0-470-09830-9
Barcode: 9780470098301

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