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 f...
| Main Author: | Dittrich, Luke (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2016]
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| Summary: |
"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 kaleidoscopic journey, from the first recorded brain surgeries in ancient Egypt to the cutting-edge laboratories of MIT... It is also, at times, a deeply personal journey: Dittrich's grandfather was the brilliant, morally complex surgeon who operated on Molaison--and thousands of other patients..."--From dust jacket. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes index. |
| Physical Description: |
xv, 440 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780812992731 0812992733 |
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