Johnson, Jenell M., 1978-

American lobotomy : a rhetorical history / Jenell Johnson. - 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Corporealities: discourses of disability .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-213) and index.

Thinking with the thalamus : the rhetoric of emotional impairment -- Domesticated women and docile boys : lobotomy and gender in the popular press -- Someone else : the Cold War politics of personality change -- The rhetorical return of lobotomy : the campaign against psychosurgery -- Not our father's lobotomy : memories of lobotomy in the new age of psychosurgery -- How Weston State Hospital became the trans-Allegheny lunatic asylum; or, the birth of Dr. Monster -- Epilogue : haunted history.

9780472119448 (hardcover : acidfree paper) 0472119443 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

2014017457

RD594 / .J64 2014

617.4/81

WL 11 AA1