Psychosurgery in Sweden 1944 - 1958 : the practice, the professional and media discourse
Background. The pioneering early experiments of prefrontal lobotomy were performed in 1944 by neurosurgeons in Stockholm in collaboration with psychiatrists. There was a rapid implementation of the new surgical approach. In 1946 and 1947 the two state mental hospitals, Umedalen and Sidsjön, introduc...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Umeå universitet, Psykiatri
2007
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1084 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7264-295-9 |