The Insane Lobotomy Craze Of The 1950s _ Boring History To Sleep
"Surgeons as prone to fashion as any other professionals, but the consequences can be much more terrible." In 1940s America, the practice of scooping out bits and pieces of the brain became fashionable among the cutting edge of the medical profession. Between 40,000 and 50,000 Americans were loboto…
The Stem Cell Scandal That Put An Famous Doctor In Hospital | Scott Carney
From stem cell clinics and longevity gurus to celebrity doctors and viral biohacks, health scams have never been more convincing.
The “monetisation of lying” is big business - and Scott Carney has blown open a huge scam involving a dodgy clinic selling stem cells, which nearly cost one doctor his l…
The 1950's
Everybody carries a version of the 1950s around in their head, and the strange thing is that a surprising amount of it is true. For millions of American families, one paycheck really could support a house, a car, and children. Homeownership climbed from roughly 44 percent before World War II to abo…
Lobotomy: The Ice Pick, the Nobel Prize, and the Doctor Who Wouldn't Stop
A doctor with an ice pick, a Nobel Prize, and thousands of altered lives. In this episode, we explore the desperate conditions that made lobotomy seem like a miracle, the doctors who championed it, and how Walter Freeman turned a radical brain surgery into one of the most infamous treatments in psy…
How the Lobotomy Changed Modern Brain Science
On this episode of Our American Stories, in the mid-20th century, families desperate for answers turned to a radical procedure known as the lobotomy. It was sold as a cure for everything from depression to schizophrenia, but its brutal methods left thousands of patients permanently damaged. At the …
LOBOTOMY BRINGS THEM HOME - The Ice Pick Doctor
🔪 "I suggested them not tell Howard anything about it." A doctor wrote that about a 12-year-old boy in 1960, days before a steel instrument was tapped through the bone above his eye with a hammer. The fee: $200. 🧠
This is the true story of the lobotomy and the part schools skip: it wasn't a hidden …
Episode 5: A Tale of Two Lobotomies - The story of Walter Freeman
In 1936, a Columbia math graduate student with a crippling phobia of shoes chose to have a prefrontal lobotomy. Five years later, she was teaching university mathematics. In 1960, a 12-year-old boy was lobotomized in a doctor's office because his stepmother found him hard to manage.
Did the lobotom…
“Lobotomies were an act of therapeutic desperation”
Musician and mental health advocate, Niall Breslin, joins Brendan to discuss his new podcast series ‘Severed Minds’. It explores the history of the lobotomy in the United States, through the stories of Walter Freeman, who popularised and frequently performed the procedure, and of Gretchen Reb, one …
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