Beyond Meds provides a link to a valuable history of lobotomy, which asks the question of “how a damaging and useless treatment could be perceived as helpful and compassionate . . . because of how docility and, in some cases, genuine reduced distress were valued above the person’s self-integrity and autonomy.”
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