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Cambridge University Press Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)

Name: Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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During the 1940s and 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans underwent some form of psychosurgery; that is, their brains were operated upon for the putative purpose of treating mental illness. From today's perspective, such medical practices appear foolhardy at best, perhaps even barbaric; most commentators thus have seen in the story of lobotomy an important warning about the kinds of hazards that society will face whenever incompetent or malicious physicians are allowed to overstep the boundaries of valid medical science. Last Resort, first published in 1998, challenges the previously accepted psychosurgery story and raises new questions about what we should consider its important lessons.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521353718
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Medicine > Medical Sciences A-Z > Surgery
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 13 February 1998
Listed Since: 22 January 2007

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