Last resort : psychosurgery and the limits of medicine / Jack D. Pressman.
Last resort : psychosurgery and the limits of medicine / Jack D. Pressman.
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N616.891/28
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English
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xv, 555 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Jack D. Pressman: An Appreciation / Gerald N. Grob -- Introduction: A Stab in the Dark -- 1. Psychiatry's Renaissance: The Problem of Mental Disorder, 1921-1935 -- 2. Sufficient Promise: John F. Fulton and the Origins of Lobotomy -- 3. Certain Benefit: Initial Impressions of the Operation -- 4. Acti...
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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England
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1998.
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Last resort : psychosurgery and the limits of medicine / Jack D. Pressman.
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Cambridge history of medicine.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N616.891/28
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0521353718 (hardback)
9780521353717 (hardback)
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616.891
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991001670489702626