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Paperback American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History Book

ISBN: 0472036653

ISBN13: 9780472036653

American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History

(Part of the Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Series)

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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...

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