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The Lobotomist


In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.

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From the Times to the Tomes: History Evolving

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In Phillip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel American Pastoral he remarks of history, “People think of history in the long term, but history, in fact, is a very sudden thing.”


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