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American lobotomy : a rhetorical history / Jenell Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Jenell M., 1978- author.
- Series:
- Corporealities.
- Corporealities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychosurgery--United States--History.
- Psychosurgery.
- Frontal lobotomy--United States--History.
- Frontal lobotomy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472119448
- 9780472120581
- OCLC:
- 907375816
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.4664873
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