American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability) - Hardcover

Johnson, Jenell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472119443 ISBN 13: 9780472119448

Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR, 2014

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American Lobotomy studies a wide variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine. The development of lobotomy in 1935 was heralded as a “miracle cure” that would empty the nation’s perennially blighted asylums. However, only twenty years later, lobotomists initially praised for their “therapeutic courage” were condemned for their barbarity, an image that has only soured in subsequent decades.  Johnson employs previously abandoned texts like science fiction, horror film, political polemics, and conspiracy theory to show how lobotomy’s entanglement with social and political narratives contributed to a powerful image of the operation that persists to this day. The book provocatively challenges the history of medicine, arguing that rhetorical history is crucial to understanding medical history. It offers a case study of how medicine accumulates meaning as it circulates in public culture and argues for the need to understand biomedicine as a culturally situated practice.

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Jenell Johnson is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jenell Johnson is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0472119443
• ISBN 13: 9780472119448
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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