American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History by Jenell Johnson

American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History

Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Jenell Johnson

240 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

informative medium-paced

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American Lobotomy studies a wide variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine. The development of lobotomy in 1935 was heralded as a “miracle cure” that woul...

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