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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness - http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/56/10/1318
Book review by a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. |
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Nobelprize.org - Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize - http://nobelprize.org/medicine/articles/moniz/
Very long scholarly article describing lobotomies, who got them, and why. |
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NPR : 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080
Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has worked to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or ice-pick lobotomy. He interviews the son of the infamous doctor who did the procedure, examines his medical records, and talks to his dad about it. [22:49 in length, available via streaming audio or as mp3 file). |
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Psychosurgery.org - http://www.psychosurgery.org/
This website tells the stories of people affected by having lobotomies done to them and works to educate about the procedure. |
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BBC - Radio 4 - Brain Surgery to Cure the Mind - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/brainsurgery.shtml
Brain surgery to treat people with psychiatric illness was virtually abandoned half a century ago, but recent progress in neuroscience is igniting renewed interest in this field. [28:55 streaming audio broadcast] |