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Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine - Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine Pressman, Jack D. (University of California, San Francisco)
Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine - Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
Pressman, Jack D. (University of California, San Francisco)
This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when tens of thousands of Americans were operated on for mental illness. By exploring the history of psychiatry as a discipline and a medical specialty, it explains why so many trusted and caring physicians believed that the procedure benefited their patients.
576 pages, 47 b/w illus. 5 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 8, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521524599 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 576 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 227 × 36 mm · 923 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Jones, Colin A. |
| Series Editor | Rosenberg, Charles E. |