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American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
Jenell Johnson
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Hardcover. Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSM; MBX; MNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
In 1935, lobotomy, one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine, was heralded as a “miracle cure” by newspapers and magazines, as they hoped that this “soul surgery” would empty the nation’s perennially blighted asylums. But the practice soon fell from favor, as the operation became characterized as a cruel practice with suspiciously authoritarian overtones. Only twenty years after the first operation, lobotomists once praised for “therapeutic courage” were condemned for their barbarity. American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History studies representations of lobotomy in a wide variety of cultural texts to offer a rhetorical and cultural history of ... Read more
In 1935, lobotomy, one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine, was heralded as a “miracle cure” by newspapers and magazines, as they hoped that this “soul surgery” would empty the nation’s perennially blighted asylums. But the practice soon fell from favor, as the operation became characterized as a cruel practice with suspiciously authoritarian overtones. Only twenty years after the first operation, lobotomists once praised for “therapeutic courage” were condemned for their barbarity. American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History studies representations of lobotomy in a wide variety of cultural texts to offer a rhetorical and cultural history of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119448
SKU
V9780472119448
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About Jenell Johnson
Jenell Johnson is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
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