Jack El-Hai: The Lobotomist | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780470098301 | The Lobotomist | Jack El-Hai | Taschenbuch | 368 S. | Englisch | 2007

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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 Demon

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, 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.

Über den 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.

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Fachbereich:	Allgemeine Lexika
Genre:	Importe , Medizin
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	368 S.
ISBN-13:	9780470098301
ISBN-10:	0470098309
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	El-Hai, Jack
Hersteller:	Wiley John Wiley & Sons
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße:	216 x 140 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Jack El-Hai
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.02.2007
Gewicht:	0,465 kg

Artikel-ID: 102143386