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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Walter Freeman’s photographic forebears
Walter Freeman, the psychiatrist who popularized lobotomy, called photography his “magnificent obsession.” There’s no doubt that Freeman loved to shock, and his lobotomy photographs and films were part of Freeman’s arsenal of attention-getters. But Freeman was also part of a … Continue reading
Posted in research, Writing
Tagged history of medicine, history of psychiatry, lobotomy, photography, psychiatry
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Writing about lobotomy photographs
It often seems to me that writing history is an exercise in hubris. I never felt that more than when trying to write about Walter Freeman’s photographs of the people he lobotomized. These are really difficult photographs: difficult to see, … Continue reading
Posted in research, Writing
Tagged history of medicine, history of psychiatry, lobotomy, photograph, psychiatry
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