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- catalog abstract "Psychosurgery is surgery that treats psychiatric disorders by damaging the brain irreversibly in order to save the mind. While it can offer normalcy to some people who have been trapped in despair for years, it also holds out the possibility of abuse, as the barbaric history of the classic ice-pick lobotomy demonstrates. Joann Rodgers shows how our understandable revulsion over past abuses has led us to ignore potentially useful new surgical methods, which destroy tiny. Clusters of brain cells, in favor of drug treatments that do not always succeed and often have negative side effects. Our neglect also means that these new procedures are performed under surprisingly few ethical or legal guidelines. Rodgers's review of the new psychosurgeries and her evenhanded examination of all the moral and medical pros and cons surrounding them give us a firm basis from which we can make a careful reevaluation of their promise and peril. This book. Forces us to face our fear of psychosurgery and take responsibility for its future.".
- catalog contributor b3689027.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "1. Poor Aunt Joan -- 2. Target of the Knife: The Psychological Brain -- 3. The Legacy of Lobotomy -- 4. Less of the Knife: The New Psychosurgery -- 5. Pain and Parkinson's Disease: Expanding Definitions of Psychosurgery -- 6. Frontiers: Psychosurgery in the Future -- 7. The Law-and-Order Lobby -- 8. Matthew -- 9. Whose Mind Is It Anyway? Some Questions and Answers -- 10. Promises to Keep -- Appendix A: Rehabilitation After the Psychosurgical Operation of Stereotactic Subcaudate Tractotomy in the United Kingdom -- Appendix B: Information for Patients: The Psychosurgical Operation of Stereotactic Subcaudate Tractotomy -- Appendix C: Mental Health Act 1983, United Kingdom.".
- catalog description "Clusters of brain cells, in favor of drug treatments that do not always succeed and often have negative side effects. Our neglect also means that these new procedures are performed under surprisingly few ethical or legal guidelines. Rodgers's review of the new psychosurgeries and her evenhanded examination of all the moral and medical pros and cons surrounding them give us a firm basis from which we can make a careful reevaluation of their promise and peril. This book.".
- catalog description "Forces us to face our fear of psychosurgery and take responsibility for its future.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Psychosurgery is surgery that treats psychiatric disorders by damaging the brain irreversibly in order to save the mind. While it can offer normalcy to some people who have been trapped in despair for years, it also holds out the possibility of abuse, as the barbaric history of the classic ice-pick lobotomy demonstrates. Joann Rodgers shows how our understandable revulsion over past abuses has led us to ignore potentially useful new surgical methods, which destroy tiny.".
- catalog extent "xix, 249 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Psychosurgery.".
- catalog identifier "0060164050 (cloth) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Psychosurgery.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : HarperCollins Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Psychosurgery.".
- catalog subject "617.4/81 20".
- catalog subject "Psychosurgery.".
- catalog subject "RD594 .R63 1992".
- catalog subject "WL 370 R691p 1992".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Poor Aunt Joan -- 2. Target of the Knife: The Psychological Brain -- 3. The Legacy of Lobotomy -- 4. Less of the Knife: The New Psychosurgery -- 5. Pain and Parkinson's Disease: Expanding Definitions of Psychosurgery -- 6. Frontiers: Psychosurgery in the Future -- 7. The Law-and-Order Lobby -- 8. Matthew -- 9. Whose Mind Is It Anyway? Some Questions and Answers -- 10. Promises to Keep -- Appendix A: Rehabilitation After the Psychosurgical Operation of Stereotactic Subcaudate Tractotomy in the United Kingdom -- Appendix B: Information for Patients: The Psychosurgical Operation of Stereotactic Subcaudate Tractotomy -- Appendix C: Mental Health Act 1983, United Kingdom.".
- catalog title "Psychosurgery : damaging the brain to save the mind / by Joann Ellison Rodgers.".
- catalog type "text".