Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine

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Jack D. Pressman

Brand: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521524599

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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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Brand Cambridge University Press

Reference 97414

EAN13 9780521524599

ISBN 9780521524599

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Publication date: 2002
Issue number: 1
Cover: paperback
Pages count: 576
Dimensions (mm): 154.00 x 233.00
Weight (g): 840

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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