Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine by Jack D. Pressman

Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine

Jack D. Pressman

576 pages first pub 1998 (view editions)

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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 ...

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