Larger 8vo Pp 338.the author an eminent university of michigan neuroscientist provides a riveting, definitive history of psychosurgery, or lobotomy and at the same time sounds an urgent warning about the dangers of radical therapies in all of medicine.

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Title

Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness

Publisher

Basic Books, New York

Publication Date

1987

ISBN 10

0465027113

ISBN 13

9780465027118

Binding

Soft cover

Condition

Very Good

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no dustjacket

Book Type

book

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Pp 338.the author an eminent university of michigan neuroscientist provides a riveting, definitive history of psychosurgery, or lobotomy and at the same time sounds an urgent warning about the dangers of radical therapies in all of medicine.

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Neuropsychologist Valenstein (Brain Control, etc.) here offers a critical and academic history of psychosurgery that he deems a "cautionary tale." The same factors that contributed to the rapid, injudicious acceptance of the lobotomy operationdesperate patients and their families, overcrowded mental institutions, sensationalism by the popular media, physicians' self-aggrandizementtoday still play a major role in prematurely promoting "miracle" medical techniques, warns the author. Beginning with a chronicle of early psychomedical experimental cures, Valenstein examines the development of shock therapy and the careers of the first psychosurgeon, Egas Moniz, and his successor, Walter Freeman, now infamous for his 10-minute "ice-pick operation." This rather chilling account will foster a profound, and not unhealthy, distrust of science, the medical profession and the media; one hopes its academic nature will not deter the general reader from attempting it.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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