“When holding Rose’s legs together failed to keep the baby from coming, the nurse resorted to another, more dangerous practice: holding the baby’s head and forcing it back into the birth canal for two excruciating hours. The” — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“In subject files labeled as correspondence related to Rosemary Kennedy, withdrawal sheets indicate the removal of hundreds of documents dating between 1923 and the… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“If Dr. Good missed the birth of the baby, he could not charge his extremely high fee of $125 for prenatal care and delivery.… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“At that time the Roman Catholic Church routinely refused the sacraments of Holy Communion and Confirmation to intellectually disabled children, especially those with Down… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“In the hours, days, and weeks following lobotomy, patients like Rosemary experienced a wide array of postoperative reactions and symptoms. They vomited uncontrollably. Incontinence… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“Women were most frequently institutionalized by the order of husbands and fathers, whose will and opinion superseded the women’s. A doctor’s legal and medical… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“Tens of thousands of patients would be forced to undergo lobotomies in the United States over the next two decades, and not until antipsychotic… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“disorder, chronic pain, and bipolar and other mood disorders. The procedure was also used to treat perceived defective personality traits that included homosexuality, nymphomania,… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“When holding Rose’s legs together failed to keep the baby from coming, the nurse resorted to another, more dangerous practice: holding the baby’s head… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“women represented eighty-two percent of the total number of lobotomy patients from 1938 to 1954. In hospitals across the country, women constituted between sixty… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
