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Medical News Debate over benefits and ethics of psychosurgery involves public A treatment of the future or a horror from the past? What is psychosurgery and where is it going? When prefrontal lobotomy was introduced in the thirties, only to be rejected almost totally (though not until an estimated 50,000 operations had been performed), many physicians thought that ended the matter. But now it appears that the dispute about lobotomies was only the prelude to a more bitter controversy. Psychosurgery—surgery to alter behavior—the highly refined cousin of prefrontal lobotomy, has become a subject of discussion in scientific literature, lay publications, in Congress, and in the courts. People are asking if psychosurgery has a place in the treatment of behavioral aberrations, or whether it constitutes an unjustified attack on a defenseless patient. Does psychosurgery enable a troubled person to rewind the tangled threads of his life, or does it turn an imperfect human http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

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JAMA , Volume 225 (8) – Aug 20, 1973
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American Medical Association
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Copyright © 1973 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
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0098-7484
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1538-3598
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10.1001/jama.1973.03220360003002
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Debate over benefits and ethics of psychosurgery involves public A treatment of the future or a horror from the past? What is psychosurgery and where is it going? When prefrontal lobotomy was introduced in the thirties, only to be rejected almost totally (though not until an estimated 50,000 operations had been performed), many physicians thought that ended the matter. But now it appears that the dispute about lobotomies was only the prelude to a more bitter controversy. Psychosurgery—surgery to alter behavior—the highly refined cousin of prefrontal lobotomy, has become a subject of discussion in scientific literature, lay publications, in Congress, and in the courts. People are asking if psychosurgery has a place in the treatment of behavioral aberrations, or whether it constitutes an unjustified attack on a defenseless patient. Does psychosurgery enable a troubled person to rewind the tangled threads of his life, or does it turn an imperfect human

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JAMA – American Medical Association

Published: Aug 20, 1973

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