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Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine

Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine

9780521353717
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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 todays 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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Cambridge University Press
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9780521353717
9780521353717

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Publication date
1998
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
576
Dimensions (mm)
152.00 x 229.00
Weight (g)
940
  • Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Psychiatrys renaissance; 2. Sufficient promise; 3. Certain benefit; 4. Active treatment; 5. Human salvage; 6. Localized decisions; 7. The politics of precision; 8. Medicine controlled; Epilogue and conclusion; Appendix.
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