TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,Jenell M. TI - American lobotomy: a rhetorical history T2 - Corporealities: discourses of disability SN - 9780472119448 (hardcover : acidfree paper) AV - RD594 .J64 2014 U1 - 617.4/81 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press N1 - 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 ER -