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Last Resort - Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine (Hardcover, New): Jack D. Pressman

Last Resort - Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine (Hardcover, New)

Jack D. Pressman

Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine

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During the 1940s and 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans underwent some form of psychosurgery; that is, their brains were operated upon for the putative purpose of treating mental illness. From today's perspective, such medical practices appear foolhardy at best, perhaps even barbaric; most commentators thus have seen in the story of lobotomy an important warning about the kinds of hazards that society will face whenever incompetent or malicious physicians are allowed to overstep the boundaries of valid medical science. Last Resort challenges the previously accepted psychosurgery story and raises new questions about what we should consider its important lessons.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
Release date: February 1998
First published: 1998
Authors: Jack D. Pressman
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-35371-7
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry
Books > Medicine > Surgery > Neurosurgery
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LSN: 0-521-35371-8
Barcode: 9780521353717

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