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American Experience · S20 E2

The Lobotomist

2008-01-21 · 55 min

In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.

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Season 20 Episodes

  • E1Oswald's Ghost
  • E2The Lobotomist
  • E3Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies
  • E4Grand Central
  • E5Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land
  • E6Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?
  • E7Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement
  • E8Kit Carson
  • E9Buffalo Bill
  • E10Minik: The Lost Eskimo
  • E11Walt Whitman
  • E12Roberto Clemente
  • E13George H.W. Bush (1)
  • E14George H.W. Bush (2)