InShort HistorybyCuring Crime:Shutter Island: Mind Control, Mysteries, and LobotomiesUsing Science to Change Criminals in Scorsese’s MovieSep 4
Zara ShabirThe Kennedy Curse Part 3: Accidents & TragediesAccidents, tragedies and a lobotomy continue to taint the Kennedy legacy. Is the family cursed?Jan 25
Tiny Wonder3 Unbelievable Medical Procedures from History: Trepanation, Bloodletting, and LobotomyThroughout history, people have been willing to try just about anything to cure their illnesses, even if it meant undergoing dangerous and…Feb 21, 20231Feb 21, 20231
InILLUMINATIONbyJen QuintanaRosemary Kennedy Endured a Devastating Lobotomy at Age 23Was this another dark chapter in the alleged Kennedy curse?Aug 303Aug 303
InShort HistorybyCuring Crime:Shutter Island: Mind Control, Mysteries, and LobotomiesUsing Science to Change Criminals in Scorsese’s MovieSep 4
Zara ShabirThe Kennedy Curse Part 3: Accidents & TragediesAccidents, tragedies and a lobotomy continue to taint the Kennedy legacy. Is the family cursed?Jan 25
Tiny Wonder3 Unbelievable Medical Procedures from History: Trepanation, Bloodletting, and LobotomyThroughout history, people have been willing to try just about anything to cure their illnesses, even if it meant undergoing dangerous and…Feb 21, 20231
InILLUMINATIONbyJen QuintanaRosemary Kennedy Endured a Devastating Lobotomy at Age 23Was this another dark chapter in the alleged Kennedy curse?Aug 303
InShort HistorybyCuring Crime:Mad Doctors, Ice Picks, & Lobotomized Children: The Lessons Behind Dully’s Tragedy“My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it”. Dully was only twelve when he was lobotomized. How can we prevent such tragedies?Feb 23, 20231
HR NEWSHow António Moniz Won the Nobel Prize for the Frontal Lobotomy in 1949The lobotomy, brainchild of António Egas Moniz and enthusiastically championed by Walter Freeman, won a Nobel Prize in 1949. This, despite…Jul 7
InShort HistorybyCuring Crime:Shock Therapies in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Electrocuting & Mutilating BrainsWhether through the ice-pick or the drill, Nurse Ratched uses lobotomy to subjugate patients to her will. Mental institutions really used…Mar 25, 20234
