TY  - BOOK
AU  - El-Hai, Jack 
AU  - Goodman, Barak 
AU  - Scott, Campbell 
TI  - The lobotomist : : sometimes medicine is a stab in the dark
U1  - AV-DVD 617.4809222 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - WGBH Educational Foundation
KW  - Depression, Mental -- Surgery -- United States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Freeman, Walter, 1895-1972
KW  - Brain, Surgery
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N2  - "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"
ER  -