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In 1935, lobotomy was heralded as a “miracle cure” by newspapers and magazines. Only twenty years after the first operation, lobotomists once praised for “therapeutic courage” were condemned for their barbarity. American Lobotomy studies representations of lobotomy in a ariety of cultural texts to offer a rhetorical and cultural history of the infamous procedure.

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    Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
    Publication Date: 10/30/2014 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780472119448, 978-0472119448
    ISBN10: 0472119443
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    Book Synopsis
    In 1935, lobotomy was heralded as a “miracle cure” by newspapers and magazines. Only twenty years after the first operation, lobotomists once praised for “therapeutic courage” were condemned for their barbarity. American Lobotomy studies representations of lobotomy in a ariety of cultural texts to offer a rhetorical and cultural history of the infamous procedure.

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