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Freeman didn’t only perform lobotomies; he was the operation’s foremost advocate.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2023

No doctor in the U.S. has performed a transorbital lobotomy since — at least, so far as the medical record shows — but lobotomies in general continued into the 1970s.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2021

Writers and film directors have not been kind to the doctors who carried out lobotomies.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2021

A chapter on Chattahoochee meanders away from the Daniels case and into varieties of shock therapy, ice pick lobotomies, Rosemary Kennedy and unwritten “paramour rights.”

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2018

Work is focused on individuals who are about to undergo partial lobotomies to treat intractable epilepsy.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai