American Experience: The Lobotomist
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0841887009102
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: PBS (DIRECT)
Manufacturer: PBS (DIRECT)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: PBS (DIRECT)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Running Time: 60 minutes
Sales Rank: 40187
Studio: PBS (DIRECT)
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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The lobotomy was hailed by The New York Times as a 'surgery of the soul', a landmark medical procedure promising hope to mentally ill patients. Championed by neurologist Walter J. Freeman, this 'last resort' caught on fast. A decade later, Freeman was decried as a moral monster and the lobotomy as a barbaric mistake of modern medicine. This program tells the gripping tale of medical intervention gone awry.
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