96: The Good Doctor Freeman
This week’s episode is about Walter J. Freeman. Jr., the surgeon without surgical training who pioneered a brutal procedure that was used to punish the women of the 1950s for stepping out of line. Let’s talk about the gruesome and brutal history of lobotomy.
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Psychosurgery, ethics, and media: a history of Walter Freeman and the lobotomy: Link
'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey: Link
He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain...: Link
The First Lobotomy in the US Happened at George Washington University: Link
Most lobotomies were done on women: Link
Diagnosing Womanhood: Lessons Learned from Gender Bias in 20th Century Psychiatry: Link
(F)ailing women in psychiatry: lessons from a painful past: Link
Race and Gender in the Selection of Patients for Lobotomy: Link
Madwives: Schizophrenic Women in the 1950s: Link
50 Years Ago, Doctors Called Domestic Violence 'Therapy': Link
Napa State Hospital to get a history of its very own: Link
Black Women, Mental Hospitals, and Public Housing — A California Carceral Story: Link
Women Who Defied Gender Roles Were Once Imprisoned In Asylums: Link
1950 Census of Institutional Population: Link
Walter Freeman and James Watts collection: Link