详细书目
| 材料类型: | 互联网资源 |
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| 文件类型: | 书, 互联网资源 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Jack David Pressman |
| ISBN: | 0521353718 9780521353717 |
| OCLC号码: | 36729044 |
| 描述: | xv, 555 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 内容: | Jack D. Pressman: An Appreciation / Gerald N. Grob -- Introduction: A Stab in the Dark -- 1. Psychiatry's Renaissance: The Problem of Mental Disorder, 1921-1935 -- 2. Sufficient Promise: John F. Fulton and the Origins of Lobotomy -- 3. Certain Benefit: Initial Impressions of the Operation -- 4. Active Treatment: Somatic Therapy and State Hospital Reform -- 5. Human Salvage: Why Psychosurgery Worked in 1949 (and Not Now) -- 6. Localizing Decisions: Psychosurgery and the Art of Medicine -- 7. The Politics of Precision: The Quest for a Better Lobotomy -- 8. Medicine Controlled: Psychiatry's Evolution as a Science and a Profession -- Epilogue: The New Synthesis -- Statistical Portrait of Psychosurgery at McLean Hospital, 1938-1954 |
| 丛书名: | Cambridge history of medicine. |
| 责任: | Jack D. Pressman. |
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摘要:
Through an extensive study of patient records, professional correspondence, and the day's medical literature, Jack D. Pressman establishes that lobotomy occurred, not at the periphery of medical practice, but at its center - a finding that engenders a different set of historical problems. To account for why so many reasonable and trusted physicians might have supported psychosurgery's validity, the book reconstructs the particular challenges facing the psychiatrists of the time and the kinds of disciplinary tools that were available to them. The new lesson that emerges from the psychosurgery story, then, is that our usual models of understanding how medicine progresses are deeply flawed.
The success of a research venture in medicine is never a safe bet, and the evaluation of therapeutic success is not an absolute measure, being relative to time and place. The standard of what constitutes valid medical science is itself never fixed, but evolving.
