Posts Tagged ‘history of medicine’
Did Abraham Lincoln Have Ataxia?
Recent research suggests that the U.S. President may have suffered from this mysterious neurological disease. For nearly twenty years, people who have a kinship to Abraham Lincoln have been gathering…
Read MoreThe Power of Narratives: A Tale of Lobotomist and Patient
Sometimes I find that a tale does not belong in a book or article I am writing, but it is too good to forget. This is one such example. On…
Read MoreGodfather of the Lobotomy: Egas Moniz
In 2010 we saw no big celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the development of psychiatric surgery — not even in Portugal, where the first brain operations to treat psychiatric disorders,…
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