Lobotomy nation : the history of psychosurgery and psychiatry in Denmark / Jesper Vaczy Kragh.
Kragh, Jesper Vaczy, author.
2021
RD594 .K73 2021
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Title Lobotomy nation : the history of psychosurgery and psychiatry in Denmark / Jesper Vaczy Kragh.
Author Kragh, Jesper Vaczy, author.
ISBN 9783030653064 (electronic bk.)
3030653064 (electronic bk.)
9783030653057
3030653056
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65306-4
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-65306-4 doi
Call Number RD594 .K73 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 617.48109489
Summary This book tells the story of one of medicines most (in)famous treatments: the neurosurgical operation commonly known as lobotomy. Invented by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz in 1935, lobotomy or psychosurgery became widely used in a number of countries, including Denmark, where the treatment had a major breakthrough. In fact, evidence suggests that more lobotomies were performed in Denmark than any other country. However, the reason behind this unofficial world record has not yet been fully understood. Lobotomy Nation traces the history of psychosurgery and its ties to other psychiatric treatments such as malaria fever therapy, Cardiazol shock and insulin coma therapy, but it also situates lobotomy within a broader context. The book argues that the rise and fall of lobotomy is not just a story about psychiatry, it is also about society, culture and interventions towards vulnerable groups in the 20th century. Jesper Vaczy Kragh is Senior Researcher in the Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities (CoRe) at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has worked on research projects on the history of forensic psychiatry, Nordic psychology, drug abuse in the 19th and early 20th century and the history of vulnerable groups, 19451980. He is Co-Editor of the book, Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe (2020).
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Series Mental health in historical perspective.
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Chapter 1. White Incisions and Black Butterflies: Introduction
Part I: Towards Lobotomy
Chapter 2. State Mental Health Services: Danish Hospitals and the Directorate, 1922-52
Chapter 3. Malaria and the Interwar Years: Malaria Fever Therapy and other Innovations in Psychiatry, 1922-37
Chapter 4. Shock and Coma: Insulin and Cardiazol Shock Therapy, 1937-42
Chapter 5. Psychiatric Cooperation: Shock Treatment, Diagnoses and Psychiatric Textbooks, 1939-42
Part II: The Time of Lobotomy
Chapter 6. Something Different: Lobotomy, Electroshock Therapy and Plans for Psychiatry, 1939-47
Chapter 7. The First of Many: Lobotomy and the State Mental Hospital in Vordinborg, 1940-47
Chapter 8. The Apostles of the Knife: Lobotomy, the Directorate and the General Public, 1946-56
Chapter 9. Last Resort?: Selecting Patients for Lobotomies in Vordinborg, 1947-56
Chapter 10. Women and the Problem of Psychopathy: Gender and Control in Vordinborg, 1947-56
Part III: The Demise of Psychosurgery
Chapter 11. A Question of Consent: Coercion and Consent to Lobotomy, 1946-58
Chapter 12. Lobotomia Sequelae: The Side-effects of Lobotomy, 1955-83
Chapter 13. The Final Cut: Summary and Conclusion.

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