American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
A Rhetorical History
- Editore:
UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR
- Collana:
- Corporealities: Discourses of
- EAN:
9780472119448
- ISBN:
0472119443
- Pagine:
- 240
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
In 1935, lobotomy was heralded as a "miracle cure" by newspapers and magazines. Only twenty years after the first operation, lobotomists once praised for "therapeutic courage" were condemned for their barbarity. American Lobotomy studies representations of lobotomy in a ariety of cultural texts to offer a rhetorical and cultural history of the infamous procedure.
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