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14 sites in Psychosurgery

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Adventures with an Ice Pick Save
Story of Walter Freeman, a man who performed several thousand ice-pick lobotomies over his career.
http://www.lobotomy.info/adventures.html   
BBC - Radio 4 - Brain Surgery to Cure the Mind Save
Brain surgery to treat people with psychiatric illness was virtually abandoned half a century ago, but recent progress in neuroscience is igniting renewed interest in this field. [28:55 streaming audio broadcast]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/b...   
Father of the Lobotomy Save
Review of a Washington Post article about Walter Freeman.
http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-122.htm   
NPR : 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey Save
Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has worked to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or ice-pick lobotomy. He interviews the son of the infamous doctor who did the procedure, examines his medical records, and talks to his dad about it. [22:49 in length, available via streaming audio or as mp3 file).
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...   
Nobelprize.org - Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize Save
Very long scholarly article describing lobotomies, who got them, and why.
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/articl...   
Psychosurgery - Massachusetts General Hospital Save
Explores the historical background of psychosurgery and discusses the anatomic and physiologic basis for such procedures. Guidelines for the appropriate selection of surgical candidates is presented and the four most common psychosurgical procedures practiced today are described. Finally, the overall experience including indications, results and complications for each procedure is reviewed and compared.
http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/F...   
Psychosurgery.org Save
This website tells the stories of people affected by having lobotomies done to them and works to educate about the procedure.
http://www.psychosurgery.org/   
Rotten.com - Lobotomy Save
Story taking a very pessimistic view of lobotomies.
http://www.rotten.com/library/medicin...   
Sabbatini, R.M.E.: The History of Psychosurgery Save
Long article published in Brain & Mind Magazine, 1(2), June/August 1997.
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/hi...   
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness Save
Book review by a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
http://psychservices.psychiatryonline...   
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