American Lobotomy - A Rhetorical History

Klappentext Studies a variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine. Johnson employs previously abandoned texts - science fiction, horror, political polemics, and conspiracy theory - to show how lobotomy's entanglement with social and political narratives contributed to a powerful image of the operation that still persists.

Product details

• Authors: Jenell Johnson
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780472036653
• ISBN: 978-0-472-03665-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Corporealities: Discourses of
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works