Patient H.M.
About this book
"In the late 1930s, in asylums and hospitals across America, a group of renowned neurosurgeons worked to develop and refine a new class of brain operation--the lobotomy--that they hoped would eradicate everything from schizophrenia to homosexuality...The most important test subject to emerge from this largely untold chapter was a 27-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison...Journalist Luke Dittrich uses his case as a starting point for a kaleidoscopic journey, from the first recorded brain surgeries in ancient Egypt to the cutting-edge laboratories of MIT...It is also, at times, a deeply personal journey: Dittrich's grandfather was the brilliant, morally complex surgeon who operated on Molaison--and thousands of other patients..."--From dust jacket.
Subjects
- 44.01 history of medicine
- amnesia
- amnesiacs
- anterograde amnesia
- biography
- brain
- brain, surgery
- epilepsy
- frontal lobotomy
- hirnforschung
- history
- memory
- memory disorders
- memory, long-term
- neurochirurgie
- neurosciences
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:science=2016-09-11
- patients
- surgery