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Lobotomy nation : the history of psychosurgery and psychiatry in Denmark / Jesper Vaczy Kragh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kragh, Jesper Vaczy, author.
- Series:
- Mental health in historical perspective
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontal lobotomy--Denmark--History.
- Frontal lobotomy.
- Psychosurgery--Denmark--History.
- Psychosurgery.
- History.
- Denmark.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. White Incisions and Black Butterflies: Introduction
- Part I: Towards Lobotomy
- Chapter 2. State Mental Health Services: Danish Hospitals and the Directorate, 1922-52
- Chapter 3. Malaria and the Interwar Years: Malaria Fever Therapy and other Innovations in Psychiatry, 1922-37
- Chapter 4. Shock and Coma: Insulin and Cardiazol Shock Therapy, 1937-42
- Chapter 5. Psychiatric Cooperation: Shock Treatment, Diagnoses and Psychiatric Textbooks, 1939-42
- Part II: The Time of Lobotomy
- Chapter 6. Something Different: Lobotomy, Electroshock Therapy and Plans for Psychiatry, 1939-47
- Chapter 7. The First of Many: Lobotomy and the State Mental Hospital in Vordinborg, 1940-47
- Chapter 8. The Apostles of the Knife: Lobotomy, the Directorate and the General Public, 1946-56
- Chapter 9. Last Resort?: Selecting Patients for Lobotomies in Vordinborg, 1947-56
- Chapter 10. Women and the Problem of Psychopathy: Gender and Control in Vordinborg, 1947-56
- Part III: The Demise of Psychosurgery
- Chapter 11. A Question of Consent: Coercion and Consent to Lobotomy, 1946-58
- Chapter 12. Lobotomia Sequelae: The Side-effects of Lobotomy, 1955-83
- Chapter 13. The Final Cut: Summary and Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kragh, Jesper Vaczy. Lobotomy nation.
- ISBN:
- 9783030653064
- 3030653064
- Publisher Number:
- 99988909357
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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