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American lobotomy : a rhetorical history /
Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Corporealities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Thinking with the thalamus : the rhetoric of emotional impairment
- Domesticated women and docile boys : lobotomy and gender in the popular press
- Someone else : the Cold War politics of personality change
- The rhetorical return of lobotomy : the campaign against psychosurgery
- Not our father's lobotomy : memories of lobotomy in the new age of psychosurgery
- How Weston State Hospital became the trans-Allegheny lunatic asylum; or, the birth of Dr. Monster
- Epilogue : haunted history.