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Title:

LAST RESORT
PSYCHOSURGERY AND THE LIMITS OF MEDICINE

By:

Jack D. Pressman

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Hardback

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0521353718

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9780521353717

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

13 February, 1998

Series:

Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine

Pages:

576

Description:

This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when many Americans were operated on for mental illness.

Synopsis:

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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47 b/w illus. 5 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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