Patient H.M. a story of memory, madness and family secrets
"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 t...
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Random House,
[2016]
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