American lobotomy : a rhetorical history /
Jenell Johnson.
- 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Corporealities: discourses of disability .
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.