num_pages: 384
description: An eminent University of Michigan neuroscientist provides a riveting, definitive history of psychosurgery, or lobotomy, and at the same time sounds an urgent warning about the dangers of radical therapies in all of medicine.
language: English
title: Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness
titlecomplete: Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness
genres: Medicine, Science, Neuroscience, Nonfiction, Psychiatry, Psychology, History, World History, Health, Mental Illness
ratings_count: 76
publisher: Basic Books