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American lobotomy : a rhetorical history / Jenell Johnson.

By: Series: Corporealities: discourses of disabilityPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780472119448 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
  • 0472119443 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
DDC classification:
  • 617.4/81 23
LOC classification:
  • RD594 .J64 2014
NLM classification:
  • WL 11 AA1
Contents:
Thinking with the thalamus : the rhetoric of emotional impairment -- Domesticated women and docile boys : lobotomy and gender in the popular press -- Someone else : the Cold War politics of personality change -- The rhetorical return of lobotomy : the campaign against psychosurgery -- Not our father's lobotomy : memories of lobotomy in the new age of psychosurgery -- How Weston State Hospital became the trans-Allegheny lunatic asylum; or, the birth of Dr. Monster -- Epilogue : haunted history.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks RD594 .J64 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001358299

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-213) and index.

Thinking with the thalamus : the rhetoric of emotional impairment -- Domesticated women and docile boys : lobotomy and gender in the popular press -- Someone else : the Cold War politics of personality change -- The rhetorical return of lobotomy : the campaign against psychosurgery -- Not our father's lobotomy : memories of lobotomy in the new age of psychosurgery -- How Weston State Hospital became the trans-Allegheny lunatic asylum; or, the birth of Dr. Monster -- Epilogue : haunted history.

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