TITLE:
A Book Review of the Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai
AUTHORS:
Hamzah M. Alghzawi, Fatima K. Ghanem
KEYWORDS:
Lobotomist, Lobotomy, Mental Illness, Book Review, Psychosurgery
JOURNAL NAME:
Voice of the Publisher,
Vol.7 No.2,
June
9,
2021
ABSTRACT: Review of
book: Jack El-Hai, The Lobotomist: A
Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness.
Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley, 2005, 362 pp. ISBN: 0470098309 (ISBN13: 9780470098301):
Reviewed by H. Alghzawi. The author of this book, Jack El-Haim, explores one of
the darkest chapters of American medicine
when Walter Freeman, M.D. attempted to treat the hundreds of thousands
of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the
twentieth century. Walter Freeman claimed that lobotomy, a brain operation, reduces the severity of psychotic
symptoms.