The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780471232926
ISBN-10: 0471232920
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: JOSSEY BASS
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States
ISBN-10: 0471232920
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: JOSSEY BASS
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States
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Praise
for
the
lobotomist
"This
captivating
book
chronicles
the
life
of
a
man
who
brought
showmanship
to
science
and
touched
the
grey
matter
of
a
generation
of
mentally
ill
patients.
Part
genius,
part
maniac,
Freeman
changed
forever
the
way
we
understand
the
link
between
mind
and
brain,
and
though
his
procedures
are
discredited,
his
biological
approach
to
mental
illness
is
ascendant.
No
history
of
modern
psychiatry
is
complete
without
this
story."
Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
"The moment Walter Freeman′s gaze lands on an ice pick in his kitchen drawer, you know you′re in for a rollicking ride. This is the biography not just of Walter Freeman but of the lobotomy, a procedure as bizarre and tragic and compelling as Freeman himself. Impressively researched and even–handed, El–Hai′s book unravels the man inside the monster. A fascinating read."
Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Vividly written and meticulously researched, The Lobotomist is a thoughtful and absorbing biography. With skill and grace, Jack El–Hai lays bare the life and obsessions of one of the most controversial figures in American medical history. A terrific read!"
Dave Isay, award–winning NPR Producer and MacArthur Fellow
"Notorious barely begins to describe the lobotomy, one of the most controversial medical procedures ever known. Jack El–Hai makes its rise understandable at last by bringing to life the complicated, all–too–human doctor who built his career on promoting the lobotomy. This is a lucid and thoughtful account of a remarkable chapter in the history of medicine."
T. J. Stiles, author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
"The moment Walter Freeman′s gaze lands on an ice pick in his kitchen drawer, you know you′re in for a rollicking ride. This is the biography not just of Walter Freeman but of the lobotomy, a procedure as bizarre and tragic and compelling as Freeman himself. Impressively researched and even–handed, El–Hai′s book unravels the man inside the monster. A fascinating read."
Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Vividly written and meticulously researched, The Lobotomist is a thoughtful and absorbing biography. With skill and grace, Jack El–Hai lays bare the life and obsessions of one of the most controversial figures in American medical history. A terrific read!"
Dave Isay, award–winning NPR Producer and MacArthur Fellow
"Notorious barely begins to describe the lobotomy, one of the most controversial medical procedures ever known. Jack El–Hai makes its rise understandable at last by bringing to life the complicated, all–too–human doctor who built his career on promoting the lobotomy. This is a lucid and thoughtful account of a remarkable chapter in the history of medicine."
T. J. Stiles, author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
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Advance
Praise
for
the
lobotomist
"This
captivating
book
chronicles
the
life
of
a
man
who
brought
showmanship
to
science
and
touched
the
grey
matter
of
a
generation
of
mentally
ill
patients.
Part
genius,
part
maniac,
Freeman
changed
forever
the
way
we
understand
the
link
between
mind
and
brain,
and
though
his
procedures
are
discredited,
his
biological
approach
to
mental
illness
is
ascendant.
No
history
of
modern
psychiatry
is
complete
without
this
story."
Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
"The moment Walter Freeman′s gaze lands on an ice pick in his kitchen drawer, you know you′re in for a rollicking ride. This is the biography not just of Walter Freeman but of the lobotomy, a procedure as bizarre and tragic and compelling as Freeman himself. Impressively researched and even–handed, El–Hai′s book unravels the man inside the monster. A fascinating read."
Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Vividly written and meticulously researched, The Lobotomist is a thoughtful and absorbing biography. With skill and grace, Jack El–Hai lays bare the life and obsessions of one of the most controversial figures in American medical history. A terrific read!"
Dave Isay, award–winning NPR Producer and MacArthur Fellow
"Notorious barely begins to describe the lobotomy, one of the most controversial medical procedures ever known. Jack El–Hai makes its rise understandable at last by bringing to life the complicated, all–too–human doctor who built his career on promoting the lobotomy. This is a lucid and thoughtful account of a remarkable chapter in the history of medicine."
T. J. Stiles, author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
"The moment Walter Freeman′s gaze lands on an ice pick in his kitchen drawer, you know you′re in for a rollicking ride. This is the biography not just of Walter Freeman but of the lobotomy, a procedure as bizarre and tragic and compelling as Freeman himself. Impressively researched and even–handed, El–Hai′s book unravels the man inside the monster. A fascinating read."
Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Vividly written and meticulously researched, The Lobotomist is a thoughtful and absorbing biography. With skill and grace, Jack El–Hai lays bare the life and obsessions of one of the most controversial figures in American medical history. A terrific read!"
Dave Isay, award–winning NPR Producer and MacArthur Fellow
"Notorious barely begins to describe the lobotomy, one of the most controversial medical procedures ever known. Jack El–Hai makes its rise understandable at last by bringing to life the complicated, all–too–human doctor who built his career on promoting the lobotomy. This is a lucid and thoughtful account of a remarkable chapter in the history of medicine."
T. J. Stiles, author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
Cuprins
Prologue.
1.
September
1936.
2. Rittenhouse Square.
3. The Education of a Lobotomist.
4. In the Hospital Wards.
5. A Perfect Partner.
6 Refining Lobotomy.
7. The Lines of Battle.
8. Advance and Retreat.
9. Waterfall.
10. Fame.
11. Road Warrior.
12. Leaving Home.
13. Decline.
14. Ghost.
Acknowledgments.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
2. Rittenhouse Square.
3. The Education of a Lobotomist.
4. In the Hospital Wards.
5. A Perfect Partner.
6 Refining Lobotomy.
7. The Lines of Battle.
8. Advance and Retreat.
9. Waterfall.
10. Fame.
11. Road Warrior.
12. Leaving Home.
13. Decline.
14. Ghost.
Acknowledgments.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Recenzii
"Written
with
such
clarity
and
engaging
detail
that
a
reader
has
difficulty
in
putting
it
down."
(The
New
York
Review
of
Books,
August
11,
2005)
Jack
El–Hai
has
written
an
absorbing,
unsettling
and
cautionary
story
of
the
man
who
sold
the
lowly
ice
pick
as
the
surgical
solution
to
the
mental
illness
of
tens
of
thousands
of
people
.
The
author,
a
respected
science
journalist,
started
his
research
assuming
that
Freeman
was
akin
to
Josef
Mengele.
He
ends
this
book
with
a
nuanced,
haunted
view
of
his
subject
WithThe
Lobotomist,El–Hai
gives
his
readers
a
first–class
biography
and,
without
saying
so,
a
tutorial
in
the
sober
need
for
professional
humility.
(Karen
R.
Long,Cleveland
Plain
Dealer)
One of the many virtues of El–Hai′s text is the rich detail he provides about Freeman′s life and ideas. His readers will thus be able to judge Walter Freeman for themselves and decide whether he is, as El–Hai would have it, "a maverick medical genius" or, as others have concluded, a moral monster. (Andrew Scull,The Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2005)
Parts ofThe Lobotomistcan best be read curled in a fetal position, but the reader would be well–advised to make the effort to wade through the relievedly short gruesome passages. That s because Walter Jackson Freeman is a man worth getting to know, a classic American archetype of genius whose one crucial idea is wielded over and over again. (Sam Stowe,California Literary Review, April 3, 2005)
For anyone interested in the science of mind and body,The Lobotomistis surely a reading must. (Louis C. Martin,Science and Theology News)
a lively biography of a much maligned and misunderstood practitioner (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, August 2005)
a well researched account of psychosurgery in the mid 20thcentury (The Guardian, June 11, 2005)
fascinating book an important and disturbing contribution to the history of psychiatry (New Statesman, June 17, 2005)
meticulously researched account (British Medical Journal, 28 May 2005)
According to freelance journalist El–Hai, Walter Freeman (1895–1972) was "the most scorned physician of the twentieth century" except for Nazi Joseph Mengele. In this first biography, he deftly chronicles the rise and fall of Freeman and the procedure he championed. Nearly 70 years ago, Freeman began refining lobotomy, in which a sharp instrument is inserted under the patient′s eyelid and into the frontal lobes of the brain; this resulted in nerve damage that seemed to offer remarkable cures in many psychiatric patients. Over time, the operation became widely adopted by the medical community and supported by mental health professionals, families, and many patients themselves. Yet there were always dissenters who attacked lobotomy as useless, cruel, or indeed criminal. Freeman, in turn, spent his entire career performing, promoting, and justifying the operation–even after the development of drugs like chlorpormazine that offered the promise of "chemical" lobotomies. By the time of his death, lobotomy had been gone for more than a decade. A worthy purchase for any library, especially for medical and large public libraries. ––A.J. Wright, Univ. of Alabama Lib., Birmingham (Library Journal, January 15, 2005)
"InThe Lobotomist, Jack El–Hai′s lively biography, Freeman comes across as a classic American type, a do–gooder and a go–getter with a bit of the huckster thrown in." ––William Grimes,The New York Times
"Driven, egotistical, brilliant, and focused, Freeman is as fascinating as the chronicle of twentieth–century psychiatry in which El–Hai sets his story." ––Donna Chavez, Booklist
"There are more curious characters than Freeman in the annals of medical history, but few are so curiously American."––Verlyn Klinkenborg,DiscoverMagazine
"In this first biography, El–Hai deftly chronicles the rise and fall of Freeman and the procedure he championed." ––Library Journal
"Good biographers must keep an open mind, to avoid stereotyping and reductionism. Fortunately, El–Hai turns out to be a good biographer."––Steve Weinberg,The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Written with such clarity and engaging detail that a reader has difficulty in putting it down." (The New York Review of Books, August 11, 2005) a lively biography of a much maligned and misunderstood practitioner (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, August 2005)
a well researched account of psychosurgery in the mid 20thcentury (The Guardian, June 11, 2005)
fascinating book an important and disturbing contribution to the history of psychiatry (New Statesman, June 17, 2005)
meticulously researched account (British Medical Journal, 28 May 2005)
"El–Hai gives his readers a first–class biography and, without saying so, a tutorial in the sober need for professional humility. (Karen R. Long,Cleveland Plain Dealer)
One of the many virtues of El–Hai′s text is the rich detail he provides about Freeman′s life and ideas. (Andrew Scull,The Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2005)
Walter Jackson Freeman is a man worth getting to know, a classic American archetype of genius whose one crucial idea is wielded over and over again. (Sam Stowe,California Literary Review, April 3, 2005)
For anyone interested in the science of mind and body,The Lobotomistis surely a reading must." (Louis C. Martin,Science and Theology News)
"...a worthy purchase" (Library Journal, January 15, 2005)
"InThe Lobotomist, Jack El–Hai′s lively biography, Freeman comes across as a classic American type, a do–gooder and a go–getter with a bit of the huckster thrown in." (William Grimes,The New York Times)
"Driven, egotistical, brilliant, and focused, Freeman is as fascinating as the chronicle of twentieth–century psychiatry in which El–Hai sets his story." (Donna Chavez,Booklist)
"There are more curious characters than Freeman in the annals of medical history, but few are so curiously American." (Verlyn Klinkenborg,DiscoverMagazine)
"In this first biography, El–Hai deftly chronicles the rise and fall of Freeman and the procedure he championed." (Library Journal)
"Good biographers must keep an open mind, to avoid stereotyping and reductionism. Fortunately, El–Hai turns out to be a good biographer." (Steve Weinberg,The Philadelphia Inquirer)
One of the many virtues of El–Hai′s text is the rich detail he provides about Freeman′s life and ideas. His readers will thus be able to judge Walter Freeman for themselves and decide whether he is, as El–Hai would have it, "a maverick medical genius" or, as others have concluded, a moral monster. (Andrew Scull,The Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2005)
Parts ofThe Lobotomistcan best be read curled in a fetal position, but the reader would be well–advised to make the effort to wade through the relievedly short gruesome passages. That s because Walter Jackson Freeman is a man worth getting to know, a classic American archetype of genius whose one crucial idea is wielded over and over again. (Sam Stowe,California Literary Review, April 3, 2005)
For anyone interested in the science of mind and body,The Lobotomistis surely a reading must. (Louis C. Martin,Science and Theology News)
a lively biography of a much maligned and misunderstood practitioner (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, August 2005)
a well researched account of psychosurgery in the mid 20thcentury (The Guardian, June 11, 2005)
fascinating book an important and disturbing contribution to the history of psychiatry (New Statesman, June 17, 2005)
meticulously researched account (British Medical Journal, 28 May 2005)
According to freelance journalist El–Hai, Walter Freeman (1895–1972) was "the most scorned physician of the twentieth century" except for Nazi Joseph Mengele. In this first biography, he deftly chronicles the rise and fall of Freeman and the procedure he championed. Nearly 70 years ago, Freeman began refining lobotomy, in which a sharp instrument is inserted under the patient′s eyelid and into the frontal lobes of the brain; this resulted in nerve damage that seemed to offer remarkable cures in many psychiatric patients. Over time, the operation became widely adopted by the medical community and supported by mental health professionals, families, and many patients themselves. Yet there were always dissenters who attacked lobotomy as useless, cruel, or indeed criminal. Freeman, in turn, spent his entire career performing, promoting, and justifying the operation–even after the development of drugs like chlorpormazine that offered the promise of "chemical" lobotomies. By the time of his death, lobotomy had been gone for more than a decade. A worthy purchase for any library, especially for medical and large public libraries. ––A.J. Wright, Univ. of Alabama Lib., Birmingham (Library Journal, January 15, 2005)
"InThe Lobotomist, Jack El–Hai′s lively biography, Freeman comes across as a classic American type, a do–gooder and a go–getter with a bit of the huckster thrown in." ––William Grimes,The New York Times
"Driven, egotistical, brilliant, and focused, Freeman is as fascinating as the chronicle of twentieth–century psychiatry in which El–Hai sets his story." ––Donna Chavez, Booklist
"There are more curious characters than Freeman in the annals of medical history, but few are so curiously American."––Verlyn Klinkenborg,DiscoverMagazine
"In this first biography, El–Hai deftly chronicles the rise and fall of Freeman and the procedure he championed." ––Library Journal
"Good biographers must keep an open mind, to avoid stereotyping and reductionism. Fortunately, El–Hai turns out to be a good biographer."––Steve Weinberg,The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Written with such clarity and engaging detail that a reader has difficulty in putting it down." (The New York Review of Books, August 11, 2005) a lively biography of a much maligned and misunderstood practitioner (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, August 2005)
a well researched account of psychosurgery in the mid 20thcentury (The Guardian, June 11, 2005)
fascinating book an important and disturbing contribution to the history of psychiatry (New Statesman, June 17, 2005)
meticulously researched account (British Medical Journal, 28 May 2005)
"El–Hai gives his readers a first–class biography and, without saying so, a tutorial in the sober need for professional humility. (Karen R. Long,Cleveland Plain Dealer)
One of the many virtues of El–Hai′s text is the rich detail he provides about Freeman′s life and ideas. (Andrew Scull,The Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2005)
Walter Jackson Freeman is a man worth getting to know, a classic American archetype of genius whose one crucial idea is wielded over and over again. (Sam Stowe,California Literary Review, April 3, 2005)
For anyone interested in the science of mind and body,The Lobotomistis surely a reading must." (Louis C. Martin,Science and Theology News)
"...a worthy purchase" (Library Journal, January 15, 2005)
"InThe Lobotomist, Jack El–Hai′s lively biography, Freeman comes across as a classic American type, a do–gooder and a go–getter with a bit of the huckster thrown in." (William Grimes,The New York Times)
"Driven, egotistical, brilliant, and focused, Freeman is as fascinating as the chronicle of twentieth–century psychiatry in which El–Hai sets his story." (Donna Chavez,Booklist)
"There are more curious characters than Freeman in the annals of medical history, but few are so curiously American." (Verlyn Klinkenborg,DiscoverMagazine)
"In this first biography, El–Hai deftly chronicles the rise and fall of Freeman and the procedure he championed." (Library Journal)
"Good biographers must keep an open mind, to avoid stereotyping and reductionism. Fortunately, El–Hai turns out to be a good biographer." (Steve Weinberg,The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Notă biografică
JACK
EL–HAI
is
the
Executive
Vice
President
of
the
American
Society
of
Journalists
and
Authors
and
a
winner
of
the
June
Roth
Memorial
Award
for
Medical
Journalism.
A
contributor
to
the
Atlantic
Monthly,
the
Washington
Post
Magazine,
American
Heritage,
and
numerous
other
publications,
he
lives
in
Minneapolis
with
his
wife
and
two
daughters.
Premii
- Minnesota Book Award Winner, 2006