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Informationen zum Autor JACK EL-HAI is the President of the American Society of Journalists and a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly , the Washington Post Magazine , American Heritage , and other publications. He is a past winner of the Minnesota Book Award and the June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism. Klappentext Praise for The Lobotomist"Written with such clarity and engaging detail that a reader has difficulty in putting it down."--The New York Review of Books"One of the many virtues of El-Hai's text is the rich detail he provides about Freeman's life and ideas."--Los Angeles Times"Fascinating . . . an important and disturbing contribution to the history of psychiatry."--New Statesman"Captivating. . . . No history of modern psychiatry is complete without this story."--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonThe 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, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Although many patients did not benefit from the thousands of lobotomies Freeman performed, others believed their lobotomies changed them for the better.Drawing on a rich collection of documents Freeman left behind and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look into the life of this complex scientific genius and traces the physician's fascinating life and work. Zusammenfassung Praise for The Lobotomist "Written with such clarity and engaging detail that a reader has difficulty in putting it down. " --The New York Review of Books "One of the many virtues of El-Hai's text is the rich detail he provides about Freeman's life and ideas. " --Los Angeles Times "Fascinating... Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue 1 1 September 1936 7 2 Rittenhouse Square 16 3 The Education of a Lobotomist 33 4 In the Hospital Wards 56 5 A Perfect Partner 83 6 Refining Lobotomy 111 7 The Lines of Battle 134 8 Advance and Retreat 157 9 Waterfall 178 10 Fame 207 11 Road Warrior 236 12 Leaving Home 257 13 Decline 284 14 Ghost 305 Acknowledgments 313 Notes 316 Bibliography 349 Index 355 ...
