Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine
- ISBN-10
- 0521524598
- ISBN-13
- 9780521524599
- Series
- Last Resort
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 576
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-08-08
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Jack D. Pressman
Description
This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when many Americans were operated on for mental illness.
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