Studies a variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine. Johnson employs previously abandoned texts - science fiction, horror, political polemics, and conspiracy theory - to show how lobotomy's entanglement with social and political narratives contributed to a powerful image of the operation that still persists.
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ISBN | 9780472036653 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | University Of Michigan Press |
Jahr | 2016 |
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