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xv, 440 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"In the late 1930s, in asylums and hospitals across America, a group of renowned neurosurgeons worked to develop and refine a new class of brain operation, the lobotomy, that they hoped would eradicate everything from schizophrenia to homosexuality ... The most important test subject to emerge from this largely untold chapter was a 27-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison ... Journalist Luke Dittrich uses his case as a starting point for a...
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