Evita’s lobotomy

2015/10/22 by Grace J. Young, Grace Young, Wenya Linda Bi +6 · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · #History of Medicine Studies #Lobotomy #Medicine #Mental Health and Psychiatry #Psychiatry #Psychosurgery

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jocn.2015.07.005

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Citations

• Prefrontal lobotomy on Evita was done for behavior/personality modification, not just for pain control
• The illness and death of Eva Perón: cancer, politics, and secrecy
• Psychosurgery: A Historical Overview
• Egas Moniz and the Origins of Psychosurgery: A Review Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Moniz's Nobel Prize
• New Evidence of Prefrontal Lobotomy in the Last Months of the Illness of Eva Perón
• Portrayal of Lobotomy in the Popular Press: 1935-1960
• Frontal leukotomy and related psychosurgical procedures in the era before antipsychotics (1935-1954): a historical overview

Cited by

• Eva Perón [wikipedia]