American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History

by Jenell Johnson

Book Overview

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"