The lobotomist :
El-Hai, Jack
The lobotomist : sometimes medicine is a stab in the dark/ Jack El-Hai; Barak Goodman; Campbell Scott - Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, 2008. - 1 videodisc sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, region 1, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. widescreen (16:9, enhanced) presentation; - 60 min.
"Lobotomy was hailed by The New York Times as 'surgery of the soul', a groundbreaking medical procedure that promised hope to the most distressed mentally ill patients and their families. But what began as an operation of last resort was soon being performed at some fifty state asylums, often with devastating results. Little more than a decade after his rise to fame, Walter Freeman, the neurologist who championed the procedure, was decried as a moral monster, and lobotomy one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine. Through interviews with Dr. Freeman's former patients and their families, his students, and medical historians, this program offers an unprecendented look at one of the darkest chapters in psychiatric history"
Depression, Mental -- Surgery -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Freeman, Walter, 1895-1972.
Brain, Surgery --History--United States --20th century.
AV-DVD 617.4809222 / E41
The lobotomist : sometimes medicine is a stab in the dark/ Jack El-Hai; Barak Goodman; Campbell Scott - Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, 2008. - 1 videodisc sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, region 1, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. widescreen (16:9, enhanced) presentation; - 60 min.
"Lobotomy was hailed by The New York Times as 'surgery of the soul', a groundbreaking medical procedure that promised hope to the most distressed mentally ill patients and their families. But what began as an operation of last resort was soon being performed at some fifty state asylums, often with devastating results. Little more than a decade after his rise to fame, Walter Freeman, the neurologist who championed the procedure, was decried as a moral monster, and lobotomy one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine. Through interviews with Dr. Freeman's former patients and their families, his students, and medical historians, this program offers an unprecendented look at one of the darkest chapters in psychiatric history"
Depression, Mental -- Surgery -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Freeman, Walter, 1895-1972.
Brain, Surgery --History--United States --20th century.
AV-DVD 617.4809222 / E41