The Lobotomist A Maverick Medical Genius & His Tragic Quest first edition HB new

Description: "The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest To Rid The World of Mental Illness" by Jack El -Hai published by Wiley 2005 hard cover first edition first printing. Written with such clarity and engaging detail that a reader has difficulty in putting it down. The New York Review of Books "One of the many virtues of El-Hai's text is the rich detail he provides about Freeman's life and ideas." The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Drawing on Freeman's documents and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look at the life and work of this complex scientific genius. Although many patients did not benefit from the thousands of lobotomies Freeman performed, others believed their lobotomies changed them for the better. 362 pages. Illustrated. Hard cover book. Not easy to find in a new condition hard back. The author Jack El-Hai is an American journalist and author who focuses most of his work on the history of medicine, the history of science, and other historical topics.

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Subject Area: Health Education

Publication Name: The Lobotomist

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Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Original Language: English

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Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults

Subject: Psychotherapy Psychology Sexual Relationships

Edition: First Edition

Vintage: No

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Type: History

Unit Type: Unit

Era: 2000s

Educational Level: Adult & Further Education, High School

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Features: Illustrated

Level: Advanced

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Book Title: Lobotomist : a Maverick Medical Genius and HIS Tragic Quest to Rid the WORLD of Mental Illness

Item Length: 9.4in

Item Height: 1.1in

Item Width: 6.3in

Author: Jack El-Hai

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: Psychopathology / Depression, Surgery / Neurosurgery, Medical, History

Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

Publication Year: 2005

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Science, Medical

Item Weight: 20.7 Oz

Number of Pages: 368 Pages