The lobotomist : a maverick medical genius and his tragic quest to rid the world of mental illness
(2021)
By:
El-Hai, Jack
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2021
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 38 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781666104813 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13792839, 1666104817 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13792839
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Peter Lerman
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, MD, who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Drawing on Freeman's documents and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look at the life and work of this complex scientific genius
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