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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0472036653
ISBN13:9780472036653
Release Date:April 2016
Publisher:University of Michigan Press
Length:234 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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