The Lobotomist

Season 2 Episode 4 · Aug 06, 2020, 05:47 PM

He was a devoted husband of a broken family, a tireless scientist with a curious mind, and an unhinged doctor with naked ambition. With persuasive charisma and a powerful intellect, he might have become a pioneering great. But when unchecked power corrupts a doctor’s ethics, the most abhorrent acts may soon seem justified.

The sources used in the making of this episode include:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28859561/

https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-surprising-history-of-the-lobotomy/#:~:text=In%201967%2C%20Freeman%20performed%20his,according%20to%20the%20Wired%20article.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/jan/13/neuroscience.medicalscience

https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/niallodowd/rosemary-kennedy-jfk-sister

https://www.medicalbag.com/home/features/despicable-doctors/walter-freeman-the-father-of-the-lobotomy/

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=0EA829F49F986C26735679B62F430494?doi=10.1.1.499.5802&rep=rep1&type=pdf

http://projects.wsj.com/lobotomyfiles/?ch=two

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kbzj8a/a-history-of-the-lobotomy

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014576&t=1591031262357

https://storycorps.org/stories/my-lobotomy/