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American Experience

1988

The Lobotomist 20 Season 2 Episode

6.6

In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.

Country
United States
Genre
Documentary
Released
04 Oct, 1988
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