Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode I discuss the mental asylums which ran in the early 1900s and the creation of the psychosurgery procedure of the lobotomy, including the story of Walter Freeman and the rise of the lobotomy in the US.
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Sources:
https://www.mind.org.uk/need-urgent-help/using-this-tool
American Scandal - Ice pick surgeon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Freeman_II
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/lobotomy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15629160
https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/43/3/article-pE6.xml
https://www.npr.org/2005/11/16/5014080/my-lobotomy-howard-dullys-journey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_in_the_Community
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/ely-inquiry-changed-healthcare-forever-2041200
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59388886