The Lobotomist / Jack El-Hai

The Lobotomist : a maverick medical genius and his tragic quest to rid the world of mental illness / Jack El-Hai opens with El-Hai referring to Walter Freeman, the man who refined and promoted the procedure called the lobotomy, as "the most scorned physician of the twentieth century." This book follows Freeman's rise to being one of America's most celebrated physicians to his fall as cultural shifts caused lobotomy to be seen as a barbaric procedure performed with an ice pick and a hammer.

The Lobotomist can be found on the shelves at RD 594 .F74 E4 2005